Rose Gold Anyone?

[Flying Pig]

Found this in the water yesterday...I know the stones are imitation, however the setting looks old, and not "junkish". It looks suspiciously like copper, and I wondered if copper was commonly used for rings in the past. In googling it, I learned that "Rose Gold" was once common and is apparently making a comeback. Reportedly 75/25 Gold to copper.

I realize it is perhaps wishful thinking, but I am curious if anyone has run across rose gold before. This doesn't hit in the expectedVDI range for copper and in fact falls more like where gold would be.

Thoughts?

Thanks for looking.

 

[Cupajo]

One of my favorite things FP!!

There is nothing quite so pleasing to my eye as rose gold!

GL&HH Friend,

CJ

 

[Bling]

n/t

 

[BH_Landstar_]

This what Rose Gold should look like (see below). I found this in the Spring of this year with my E-Trac.

 

[Spungehead]

....that the situation Bling described is most likely the case.....a formerly gold plated ring with the plating worn off and the copper ring exposed. If that's true, something that may account for the lower-than-expected VDI numbers could be the skeletonized nature of the upper portions of the ring leading to the setting. Any time you have something less than a solid circle, it tends to bring down ID numbers and tone ID comes in sounding lower, as well.

BUT.....the lighting in the pic may just be a little misleading. When gold does finally reach the tarnish point (the lower the "K" (gold content), the quicker it will reach the tarnish point) it can darken, even to the point of becoming black. It certainly wouldn't hurt if you have access to a gold polish cloth (I believe a silver polish cloth would do the trick, as well) to give the ring a going over with it. If it appears more gold at that point, you might have gotten lucky....if it just ends up looking like brighter, shinier copper, than it probably was a plated ring. I assume there's no karat marking inside the band??? This has the potential look of a tarnished 10K ring. I once found a tiny religious pendant that had tarnished to black, and I was fairly certain it was sterling silver. It turned out to be 10K gold.