>>520940586
I’ve tested thousands of pieces. I am extremely autistic when it comes to collecting and know gold and silver testing inside out. Of the 400 of so pieces i have bought there are maybe 4 that turned out to not be legit - and all were bought far under spot anyway. One was a small Tiffany pendant that was supposed to be 1.25g but i have a 1g 18k pendant and i was holding them next to each other and I thought “the density doesnt look right” so i filed it and it had a silver core :(

But i trust my eye well enough that i can identify real gold jewelry on a homeless person.

Pic related is one i wish i had bought. It’s a 160g 18k Jizei Ikemono figurine of a crayfish made in mid century Italy as a kinetic sculpture since it has gyroscopic joints (3d rotational) and springs inside the claws. It’s basically totally photo realistic.

A scrap dealer near my house had it for $27,000 but i went with basically a pile of scrap asking if i could trade and they were like “it’s going to take 2 hours to tally that up. Can you just leave it here and come back” and i was like “i cant trust you like that.”

I wish i bought it though because i think its worth 300k+