Gold jewellery comes in many different degrees of purity and some items are not made of pure gold but gold-plated materials. One way to judge how genuine your gold is to hold it in your hand and feel its weight. But there are many people out there who cannot differentiate between real gold jewelry and artificial gold jewelry. This article will help you in this regard.

Gold-plated or gold-filled jewellery looks exactly like genuine real gold jewelry earrings, rings and bracelets. We only start noticing the difference when the color fades out or the ‘gold’ starts losing its shine. Even if you are looking for gold-plated jewellery items and not 24k gold, which is the purest form of gold, you should make sure before buying that you are paying a reasonable price.

It should be mentioned here
that gold-filled jewellery is of slightly higher quality than gold-plated jewellery. There are different degrees of gold-filled jewellery and items vary greatly in price, but as a rule of thumb you should remember that gold-filled items must have at least 5% pure gold by weight. Pure gold comes in a bright yellow color and it is very shiny.

Gold-filled jewellery is therefore more expensive than the gold-plated one. Some items are even made to look like 14k pure gold which is 58% gold by weight. Below the 10k mark, the material is not considered as gold. This is where some jewellery sellers try to fool their customers.

Anything below 10k gold is artificial or faux. Do not buy it at any cost. However, if you are looking for artificial jewellery then you may want to buy such items given that their price is reasonable. This is how you can tell the difference between different types of gold items in terms of how original and real they are.