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To determine if your gold necklace jewellery is genuine or not, you don’t have to go to a jeweler. A magnifying glass or jeweler’s loupe is all you need to examine your gold necklace jewellery. In buying any jewelry, it is always important to know if it is fake or not. So here are a few tips you can follow to determine if a piece of jewelry is genuine or not:

1. Get your gold necklace jewellery and prepare them carefully. Have a magnifying glass or a jeweler’s loupe ready and observe each necklace carefully.

2. Read the markings on your gold necklace jewellery. Necklaces made out of gold have markings that represent purity. Locate the karat markings. Here are the karat markings that indicate the purity of your gold necklace jewellery:

24K: Pure gold 18K: About 75% gold 14K: About 59% gold 10K: About 42% gold

3. Locate a well lit area and look at your gold necklace jewellery near the clasp and look for a small metal tag. The tag should either be oval or rectangular and have the same gold color as the necklace chain and clasp. With a magnifying glass or loupe, look at both sides of the tag carefully. It will have the gold’s karat marking. The mark may be 10K, 14K, 18K, 24K or a decimal, such as .750 to indicate 75% or 18K.

4. If you find EP or GP on the tag, it means the necklace is plated and not solid gold. In other words, your necklace jewellery is merely metal plated with gold to reduce cost.

5. If a marking is nowhere to be found on your gold necklace jewellery, another way of telling if a necklace is fake gold or not is if the gold tarnishes. Look to see if the necklace has tarnished. If the gold appears dull and silver in color, then it means that it has tarnished and is fake. Real gold does not tarnish and plated gold necklaces can also chip or flake. They could tarnish with time.

6. The last step to determine if your necklace is fake, if you still want to make sure, is to take it to a jeweler. The jeweler can do an acid test to determine the gold content.

Gransh Rainnen is a well-known expert on gold necklace jewellery for over 15 years. If you wish to get great advice on jewelry, you should visit his site at gold necklace jewellery.