Earring

[WV62]

Well I had a meeting with the president of the bank today to count all my money, well maybe it wasn't the president but he said he was a big shot. That didn't take long, but on my way to the car I spotted something shinny in the parking lot. It was a large earring and was kind of heavy, my wife said it was junk. It had been run over by a car so I couldn't tell much about it. When I got home I got some tools nu-folded it so I could see any markings.

It did and it had NEJcz 925, anybody out there have any ideas if this is junk jewelry or good stuff?

Ron in WV

 

[REVIER]

Not a clue, well one clue...that 925 mark...and the cz.

Could be a maker's Mark, New England Jewelry or Natural Elements Jewelry...probably had some cz's attached at one point.
https://www.rubylane.com/item/729702-10211/Sterling-Silver-Rhinestone-Sunburst-Earrings-Signed


I assume you have no silver testing agents.
A quick test, lay it on an ice cube and if it melts quick probably silver.
If you have a gold test kit scrape it on the stone and test with 18k acid...if it turns blue it is sterling.

 

[MarkCZ]

I couldn't find anything on the net for that stamp, but the 925 is pretty standard for silver content.

Mark

 

[WV62]

My thinking also it is silver, it also has about 20 small stones set in it, I would assume those would be some kind of fake diamond chips.

I just had a thought being I don't have any way to test it, I can hit it with the detector and my thinking if it is silver it would ring in pretty high maybe in the range of a dime or quarter.

Ron in WV

 

[REVIER]

My thinking also it is silver, it also has about 20 small stones set in it, I would assume those would be some kind of fake diamond chips.

I just had a thought being I don't have any way to test it, I can hit it with the detector and my thinking if it is silver it would ring in pretty high maybe in the range of a dime or quarter.

Ron in WV

Maybe...but I have found several silver earrings that because due to the small size or some kind of open configuration like open rings or holes it will diffuse the signal like chains do and come in lower than dimes...many into zinc.

 

[MarkCZ]

My thinking also it is silver, it also has about 20 small stones set in it, I would assume those would be some kind of fake diamond chips.

I just had a thought being I don't have any way to test it, I can hit it with the detector and my thinking if it is silver it would ring in pretty high maybe in the range of a dime or quarter.

Ron in WV

Maybe...but I have found several silver earrings that because due to the small size or some kind of open configuration like open rings or holes it will diffuse the signal like chains do and come in lower than dimes...many into zinc.

I took him to say it was pretty large and fairly heavy.
Mark

 

[REVIER]

My thinking also it is silver, it also has about 20 small stones set in it, I would assume those would be some kind of fake diamond chips.

I just had a thought being I don't have any way to test it, I can hit it with the detector and my thinking if it is silver it would ring in pretty high maybe in the range of a dime or quarter.

Ron in WV

Maybe...but I have found several silver earrings that because due to the small size or some kind of open configuration like open rings or holes it will diffuse the signal like chains do and come in lower than dimes...many into zinc.

I took him to say it was pretty large and fairly heavy.
Mark

Size matters, the shape, which direction you hit it from does too so even how it is laying in the ground or exactly how you air test it matters more.
I cringe when I see newbies that assume all silver jewelry will come in high like dimes, if they assume that is true they have the possibility of missing much.
Two lessons I learned...

The Harley ring is one of my favorite silver finds.
It is not huge but it is thick and heavy.
When I found it the thing was a dead on repeating low 60's zincoln signal, I swore I was going to be digging a zincoln.
This popped up instead and it was crushed in the middle which made it into a figure eight shape instead.
When I ran the face over the coil after I dug it the signal changed into a solid 79 every time but turning it from the side the figure eight shape, which mimicked two links in a very thick chain... still a zinc signal.
After getting it home I used my mandrel to open it back up and into a round ring again and now every pass over my coil from every side, front, back, top and bottom it was a 79.

The silver heart bracelet was also big and pretty heavy but when I scanned it buried in the ground the clasp was open and again it was a zincoln signal in numbers and tone.
Once again another surprise, when I closed that clasp and made a complete unopened round ring shape it changed up to a mid 80's quarter signal on every pass from any direction.

Both were solid signals but both were disguised as something else much lower in conductivity because of physics and eddy currents.

Size matters but other things like the profile and shape presented to our coils affect our signals too.

 

[still looking 52]

Take it to the jewelery store and they'll let you know if it's real silver or not plus if it's silver they can give you a value. Maybe this is a sign that this year is going to be a big silver year.

 

[WV62]

Okay here is that earring, I ran it in front of my F75 and it was reading between 55 and 59, but it wouldn't lock on like a coin.

Ron in WV

 

[MarkCZ]

Well, "REVIER" I think Ron has been detecting sense 1978 give or take a couple of years that he just left out all the information about,
Size,
Shape,
Connected loop (closed solid loop)
Open loop (semicircle)
Alloy Content,
Positioning in the ground,(flat, edged, tilted) could actually change the detectors response to that object. But, I'm pretty sure he knows about the differences.

At this point lets rewind just a bit!

In the Ron's title post he states

It was a large earring and was kind of heavyy

And to that you replied,

but I have found several silver earrings that because due to the small size

So I just assumed that you missed Ron's reference to "LARGE" and "HEAVY"
So I posted this,

I took him to say it was pretty large and pretty heavy

Ron, has probably figured in a solid loop vs an open loop, thickness, weight, total mass and seeing how he was referring to using the detector as bit of a possible silver test for the object in question and would have been laying FLAT (placed) on the Ground (he already found it). So, based on that I'm thinking that if its pretty solid, a solid loop or maybe not a loop at all, and its silver then it should hit a little higher in response then the normal costume jewelry. If its total mass is at lest that of a dime or more then the detector response might be close to that of a dime (laying flat on top of the ground, not in different variables under the ground)

First test I would do not having an actual silver test kit, is
If its heavy I would see if it sticks to a magnet, if it don't then that rules out a lot of CHEAP core alloys.
Then in the weight department it couldn't be aluminium unless its HUGE its will just feel to light for its size.
Next test for silver is to nick one edge and see if its plated,
Next is a simple bleach test, sterling silver oxidizes almost immediately when you put a drop of bleach on it. So, you can polish an area until its shinny then place a drop of bleach on and see it turns dark.

None of the above is PROOF of the object being silver buts if it passes the test then its worth either saving it as a piece of silver or maybe having it tested.

Mark

 

[REVIER]

What I meant was large, small, strange shapes and all weird things happen out there...a lot.
I found a large heavy silver earring that had two big oblong loops...tested weird.
Looking at the new pic it seems solid enough to register a good signal but it doesn't so who knows.
Testing will tell all and solve the mystery.

 

[WV62]

Well I should have done my home work before posting, it sticks to a magnet.

It went in the trash shortly after that.

Ron in WV