THAT'S THE WAY AW-HA AW-HA I LIKE IT AW-HA AW-HA....... :nopity:

[John-Edmonton]

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Took my daughter and her buddy out for an evening at a beach close to home. The water was warm and there were a few water rats swimming and hopefully losing jewelry. Some poor soul lost a gold filled necklace, and another lost a sterling silver ring. and, some coins showed up too in my scoop too.

I learned something new today, The gold chain lock was stamped 14/20, which means it is gold filled. A gold filled object has 100 x the amount of gold then a gold plated object. I never knew that.........

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[awhitster]

Nice finds John. Here is some information on gold filled from the book How To Be A Jewelry Detective.

 

[DavHut]

It turns out that gold filled has been around a long time, too. Many nice vintage pieces were made that way, including Victorian age stuff.
The middle layer was often silver and the gold is fused to it by heat and pressure, just like with our current clad coinage.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah it was just early fancy clad.

Bill