[Jewelry making - Article 00300] - Re: [Orchid] White gold, boom or bubble?

[MillsGem]

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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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