Crazy Sterling Jeweled Acorn Bracelet

[JimDon]

Hit a thrift store today and found this strange bracelet for $3. It has a large acorn encrusted and set with 9 garnets. The thick chain is marked in the unusual spot of one of the links. It has no other marks and weighs about 1.5 ozt . Crazy for sure and can’t imagine anyone wearing it but glad to have it.

 

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[Indian Steve]

Nice Find! It looks like your clasp is getting ready to come off. Squeeze that loop back closed.

 

[Hawks88]

That is a real cool find for only $3.00.

 

[ARC]

Nice Find! It looks like your clasp is getting ready to come off. Squeeze that loop back closed.

Not original clasp.

 

[ARC]

Would test acorn.

 

[tamrock]

Chunky.

 

[JimDon]

I retested it again and compared it to a sterling piece. The acid turned brown not red. I am thinking not silver.

 

[snowdogg70]

I retested it again and compared it to a sterling piece. The acid turned brown not red. I am thinking not silver.

try using the 18k acid, should turn blue for silver, easier to see than the red

 

[randazzo1]

It’s a pain in the neck to set stones in a piece like that. Also, something about it makes me think it may have been a one off lost-wax-cast piece - it looks like the pieces I got when I started playing around with casting. Surprised it’s not silver, given the time somebody invested.

 

[JimDon]

try using the 18k acid, should turn blue for silver, easier to see than the red

Here is the acid test. The acorn is on the right in each test. The left is a silver bracelet. The first test is with 18 karat gold acid in the second test is with sterling silver acid. Looks good to me.

 

[ARC]

All is well.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find, congratulations!

 

[zombieraccoon]

I use a piece of frosted black glass as my scratch stone, and I would go nuts trying to make out if the silver testing solution was turning the proper red. That 18K gold test is definitely the way to go, the only time I ever use the silver stuff is when I pour it directly on a piece, usually after I have have filed into if I suspect it to be plated.

 

[DFW_THer]

It has that 'I'm actually slightly magnetic' 1960-1970 'mostly sterling' look. Haha. No magnet pull at all on the links? I think it's a great buy regardless.