I use Clorine, magnet and finally acid tet. It is plated but I had to "dig" a bit to reach the no silver metal and test it with acid. I dont want to do it again. Next Ill run gravity test by Arquimidis principle.
Nice and interesting post. Im gonna try to help you out with my bad english. First thing I noticed was that you run a X-ray test on a ingot. This test can be run for almost any material and it is about difraccion of the particules irradiated by X-rays. When you do this test, you need a sample. The k...
Now after several tests I can understand that about the milk. Since I have just 18k gold acid test I made several tests with silver and I noticed that the mark on the stone is always removed but when I test silver it become a white liquid (milk) floating on the acid. Im pretty sure the floating &quo...
And I dont even know if it is silver or silverplated :/ It is weird it doesnt have more marks. Thanks for your time, ill search for the clues you gave me and try to figure out what I have :D
About a marker mark in south america, probably Uruguay. Name is "Arte Plata". They have a jewelers company still working but I couldnt find their history yet. I want to know if they were working on silver crafts.
Thank you so much Trev. It is a surprise, it doesnt look silver at all and it is old... Ill upload a pic of the items so you can see it also and not just the marks.
Here is the best I can do Oel. It seems like pseudo marks or they are just too fuzzy. About the mark that is like a bunch of scratches any clue from it? I saw a very similar mark here: http://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_hanau_marks_01.html Stork & Sinsheimer. https://www.925-1000.com/pics/Ximg.jpg ...
Very small pendant. I used a magnifying glass and only could detect one mark that I describe as a bull with horns inside a circle, hopefully you can see the bull in the pic. I have this pendant long time ago but didnt post it because the mark wasnt clear. Now i can pretty sure that it is a bull with...
Interesting, thx Dognose. I know this is an old piece, probably from the end of S XIX. The monogram is from a family well known in my country, a former president.