Gold jewelry marked "750" or "18k" indicates a blended metal consisting of 75% gold and 25% other alloys or elements. Likewise, a "585" or "14k" imprint indicates a gold content equal to 58.5% of ...

Stroll through Greenport's antique trail, featuring shops like The Weathered Barn and Silver by the Sea, offering vintage and ...

Look for silver hallmarks to spot costume jewelry. A ".925" mark indicates sterling silver on jewelry. ... Antique jewelry: How to identify gold and silver hallmarks. Advertisement.

Antiques: Jewelry hallmarks tell the story. ... Coin silver — the amount of silver generally used in most silver coinage — is 90% silver and is so marked. Prior to 1870, ...

The vintage jewelry market is enormous and full of pitfalls, so many smart women look to jewelry consultants to help them build a collection and find hard-to-get pieces. Expert Jill Heller tells ...

My parents began giving me antique jewelry when I was a girl. Our family had a friend who was an antiques dealer, and Mrs. Carlson's store had a pirate's booty of Victorian seed-pearl and garnet ...

The act of collecting antique jewelry has been a favorite amongst collectors for decades. With the love of their unique, one of a kind designs being favored by brides especially in the last 5 ...

Antiques: Trends in gems and jewelry. Story by Mike Rivkin • 3d. ... Today it’s the metal, gold in particular but silver and platinum too, ...

We talked to jewelry designers, antiques dealers, and antique silver specialists about the best polishes, foams, solutions, cloths, wipes, and mittens to use for cleaning silver.