Anyone Been Cashing in Their Gold???

Was at a yard sale today and a lady had a table full of dishes and plates and other items all painted with 22 k gold,,, have any of you seen items like that? How can I get the gold off them?

mikeandgerry wrote:Golly, franco b, you make it sound so simple!

I guess that's why most places don't want to bother.

Back in the 1980s I was buying scrap gold. I busted up my share of teeth with gold fillings (mostly not in the people's mouth). I remember one young lady who commented when I told her, her wedding ring was brass,"no wonder the marriage didn't last". I did get scammed once when I questioned the accuracy of a buyers scale. To reassure me he put a Krugerand on his scale and sure enough it weighed exactly one ounce. It was only later that I realized that a Krugerand is not absolutely pure 22 Karat so extra is added to make it one ounce gold, but it weighs more than one ounce Troy. That's the amount I was short weighted. Not much but in a busy place it adds up.

franco b wrote:

mikeandgerry wrote:Golly, franco b, you make it sound so simple!

I guess that's why most places don't want to bother.

Back in the 1980s I was buying scrap gold. I busted up my share of teeth with gold fillings (mostly not in the people's mouth). I remember one young lady who commented when I told her, her wedding ring was brass,"no wonder the marriage didn't last". I did get scammed once when I questioned the accuracy of a buyers scale. To reassure me he put a Krugerand on his scale and sure enough it weighed exactly one ounce. It was only later that I realized that a Krugerand is not absolutely pure 22 Karat so extra is added to make it one ounce gold, but it weighs more than one ounce Troy. That's the amount I was short weighted. Not much but in a busy place it adds up.

I just learned some there!! Thanks for letting me know that franco

theo wrote:Was at a yard sale today and a lady had a table full of dishes and plates and other items all painted with 22 k gold,,, have any of you seen items like that? How can I get the gold off them?

You can only melt it off and you wont get very much after deducting the cost of the dishes and the gas in your torch.

Gold can be beaten very thin. There was once a trade called gold beaters who job it was to beat gold with a hammer between blocks to gold leaf thickness. When a sign painter applies gold leaf it is so thin that there is no way to pick it up without damaging it. What he does is charge a brush with static electricity which the leaf will cling to, and he then transfers it to a varnished surface in the form of the letter he wants and then just brushes off the gold that overlaps the letter.