With 24 karat gold currently over $1400. we all start to realize the preciousness of gold. Gold has been used as a basis for money until recent times in the USA. It may be again sometime soon. We at Manoli’s Jewelers personally hope so. We personally believe that this is a very good time to be investing in gold and silver.
But we are concerned with jewelry made from gold right now. Of course you will pay more for the art and design of a piece of gold jewelry but you also will be able to wear and enjoy that piece of jewelry as well.
We have many pieces of unique and unusual gold bracelets, gold earrings, gold necklaces and more.
We especially like the “murano glass jewelry” from Murano Italy. It is fun and very affordably priced.
What falls under this category of precious metals? Most would say gold of course. Gold comes from the ground in the form of 24 karat gold which is considered to be pure gold. Man then takes the 24 karat gold and alloys it with other metals (perhaps silver, copper, nickol, palladium) to bring it down to 18 karat, 14 karat or even 10 karat gold. Thus 18 karat is 18 parts pure gold and 6 parts of alloy metals. 14 karat is 14 parts of pure gold and 10 parts of alloy metals. 10 karat gold is 10 parts of pure gold and 14 parts of alloy metals.
The color of gold that we call white gold does not exist at all in nature. During World War II the government no longer allowed for platinum to be used for jewelry as it was needed by the military and so the refiners and jewelers created what we now call white gold. They took pure 24 karat yellow gold and alloyed it with nickol to achieve a white color to compensate for the no longer available platinum. While the white gold had a bit of a yellow cast to it it worked well and was later often rhodium plated to mask it’s slight yellowish cast. Today many white gold alloys are being developed and used to get around the yellowish cast problem.