Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Silver & Other Jewelry Metals: How to Test, Select & Care for Them

In this full-color guide to precious and alternative jewelry metals, a gemologist who has written extensively on her field presents key historical, technical, and regulatory information on mining and manufacture, identification, valuation (including determination of gold content), purchase, safe testing, care and storage, and re-selling of them. Newman also provides tips on recognizing deceptive techniques and unethical consignment dealers and contracts. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A full-color guide to identifying, evaluating, selecting, selling, testing and caring for jewelry metals including information on their history, uses, fineness markings, imitations, and pricing. Jewelry manufacturing methods, plating, enameling and responsible mining and business practices are also discussed.
An illustrated reference on the properties and jewelry uses of gold, platinum, palladium, silver, copper, bronze, brass, iron, stainless steel, Damascus steel, titanium, niobium, aluminum, tungsten carbide and cobalt chrome. The book explains how to test, buy, sell, evaluate and care for jewelry with precious and alternative metals. Besides providing an historical perspective and interesting facts about the metals, this book discusses jewelry manufacturing methods, fineness markings, plating, enameling, refiners and responsible mining & business practices High-quality color photos show how these metals are creatively used in jewelry.