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Eric,
Thanks for your concise breakdown on metals usage vis a vis white
vs. yellow. It might have been even more telling if you had injected
some geography into the equation...... Rose gold may be the
comer.......I know through experience that it has always had appeal
in the antique pieces that I have carried. In a market where people
are actively looking for something distinctive and/or different, it
may fill the bill.
Day before yesterday the Stuller magazine came in the mail and I
noticed that they had a two page spread illustrating some designs
for the Spring season. It was noteworthy that none of the items was
pure white, about half were two tone and the rest were yellow. Maybe
they know something we don't know, or maybe they are just
fishing.....who knows ? I DO know that Stuller began charging a
slight surcharge for some of its' white gold products. I surmise that
this is a reflection of the fact that white gold is a bit more
difficult to work than yellow and they are recovering their labor
costs.
Another completely different aspect of the metal color consideration
is the rumour that I have heard about the possibility of making
nickel white gold illegal because of the presumed toxicity of
nickel. I have had a problem with this inasmuch as nickel is a common
ingredient of stainless steel in cookware and, presumably, in
surgical steel. My take on this matter is that the Europeans don't
permit the use of white gold for the aforementioned reason. Does
anyone have a better insight into this consideration ?
Ron Mills, Mills Gem Co. Los Osos, Ca.
(where we had an April frost this morning ! Climate change anybody
?....we are located at sea level and, as everyone KNOWS, it never
freezes in California....yeah, sure!)
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