[Jewelry making - Article 00072] - Re: [Orchid] Converting yellow gold to white

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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>      The piece may have been molded and cast. 

    If the customer came in and said "I had this piece before and I
    brought it to a jeweler who converted it to white gold, and the piece
    is exactly the same as before except it's white now" I would lay odds
    of 100 to 1 that all the jeweler did was rhodium plate it.  I have,
    over the last 25+ years of retailing had a number of people come in
    and tell me the same thing and it has always turned out that the
    piece had simply been plated. Maybe this isn't exactly what the
    customer was saying but it sure sounded to me like it was. 

Daniel R. Spirer, GG
Spirer Somes Jewelers
1794 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-491-6000
spirersomes AT earthlink.net
www.spirersomes.com



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