Tarnished gold?

[Brandipit]

Hi. I have a few pieces of jewelry that have tarnished due to exposure to chemicals. I was testing them with my gold kit and I left them in the box with the chemicals and this is what they looked like a few days later. What can I do??

 

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[GoDeep]

Your gold may not be gold. The one picture, though blurry, actually looks like it's rusting, which indicates the base metal is iron based.

 

[Back-of-the-boat]

Whatever chemicals you had it in with brought out some of the metal the 14k is mixed with and the greenish part would be copper that is mixed in, I would take them to a jeweler to get them cleaned and polished. Let the jeweler know what chemicals they were in with. I had found a 14k chain that ended up being fake after I really got a good look at it and it changed to that colorization after trying to polish it up, plus I found some flaking that wasn't found until I put it under my digital microscope and it says 14k Italy. So a lot of fake stuff is out there.

 

[vpnavy]

I moved ya from HELP! over to CLEANING & PRESERVATION for more exposure.

 

[Treasure Hunting NM]

Hi. I have a few pieces of jewelry that have tarnished due to exposure to chemicals. I was testing them with my gold kit and I left them in the box with the chemicals and this is what they looked like a few days later. What can I do??View attachment 1998496

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