Gold Silver Jewelry Tester Appraisal Kit 10K 14K 18K 22K 24K Platinum Palladium Test Precious Metals 999 925 Scrap

Like most families we have a few bits and pieces of jewelry, unpaired earrings, broken chains, etc. that have little value before but with the price of gold at all time high they are now worth testing and selling. The test kit is excellent, the solutions fresh and works great; at least for the gold which I used. I am assuming the same is true with the silver and platinum solutions. I’m not a jeweler but the kit is easy to use and seems to do what it is designed for which is all that matters. The price is very reasonable and the delivery was very prompt.

Very cool and useful! :)

Happy with the kit! I used it with gold leaf. It showed, in fact, that the gold leaf I purchased was fake.

The media could not be loaded. Everything about this kit is excellent, except for one tiny detail – when I opened one of the scratch plates for testing gold, it had some residue or some type of crud on the surface – it wasn’t the clean black testing plate I expected and I’ve seen before. Luckily they provide three or four of these testing plates, which is nice. The kid includes acids for 10K, 14K, 18K, 22K platinum, silver, and a neutralizing acid. I’ve already put this into use and it has revealed that a necklace I thought was just gold tone is actually 14 karat! I was using years old acid to test my goal which is a no no. You should be replacing your gold and silver testing acid every six months or so. Well worth the investment, especially if you find yourself in a situation like I did – especially with unmarked metal, You might be in for a lovely surprise. If you don’t know what the gold parody might be, lightly scratch the piece on the stone and start with the lowest purity acid - 10K. If the acid doesn’t destroy that gold scratch, move up to 14K. Then move up to 18K (you lucky lucky dog!) if you don’t see any smoke or gold disappearing from the initial tests (the acid will destroy the metal if it does not have the level of purity it’s test testing for.)

Great value and bottles were nicely sealed around the caps. You get 2 stone surfaces 2x4 inches each which is adequate for testing different gold karats side by side.(Helpful storage hack- I used an old pool reagents container to store the bottles- they have divided sections for the bottles.)

Arrived overnight has worked great to guarantee authenticity of precious metals!

Has everything I need to test gold, silver and platinum. 10k and up are covered for gold and the test is easy to use. My wife was able to make a great profit on some unmarked earrings at an estate sale. She was also able to know when the gold being sold was not actually gold. If your serious about buying and selling gold you need this kit.

Jeweler here. This is the second time getting this product after sending a replacement. Same issue. The acid has lost any reactivity providing inaccurate/non-existent test results. Not sure if the product is really old stock or was improperly stored, but will not be purchasing from this seller again.Second photo is at my workplace, showing how the acid should look on the stone after reacting to the metal.