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Old gold

This is a great blog post by the folks at Mardon Jeweler’s in Riverside, CA. It has a perfect example/explanation of why we never use “old gold” in our work, but use recycled gold in every piece we make. While re-using gold from your old jewelry to make new pieces sounds both practical and romantic, [...]

Pet Peeve-Hollow gold Jewelry

I just had a lovely woman come into the store with her favorite necklace. She purchased it because it is a great all occasion piece. It is a 14K gold chain with big circular links in different thicknesses and diameters. The problem is that the thinner links are deforming. When she took the necklace off [...]

Gold Fever

This is an interesting article. We get a lot of people who ask “Why is gold going up in price?” The truth is, we’re a jewelry store, and the price of gold has way more to do with economics than it does with engagement rings.

Anomalous Jewelry

Wearing Inspirations and Paying Homage to a New Level

Most of the custom pieces we make at Precious Metals are non-representational, and use classic elements such as filigree, beading, and traditional diamond settings. Every once in a while we are commission to do a piece that uses images and symbols that are close to the [...]

The Other White Metal

Yellow or white?

This is a question that arises often when buying jewelry, especially an engagement ring. It really all comes down to personal preference. Most pick one color over the other, and while two-tone jewelry is fun, very people mix the colors. So if you plan on buying your significant other a piece of [...]

All that glitters

http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2010/03/05/all_that_glitters_may_not_be_cash/

Great article about selling gold. While Precious Metals buys gold, we will ALWAYS tell you exactly what we pay per pennyweight and will convert that to a per gram price if you request. We will break it down to the exact percentage that we pay (63%). Which mean that if the market value of [...]

Selling your gold: What determins the price?

So you have some gold, and you call a few places to see what they are paying. My my post Shopping around has some information about the units (grams or pennyweights) that most gold buyers use and how to convert between the two. It also talks about gold content in the different carats, which is [...]

Selling your old gold: Shopping around

If you have some old gold to sell it is important to shop around. Due to high market values, the gold buying business has gotten very competitive in the past two years. Every one who buys gold has a different system for determining their prices, but almost all pay by unit of weight and karat. [...]

Selling Gold. Part One of Four.

We buy gold at Precious Metals, and we get a lot of questions about the whole process. The nightly news is talking about how to sell your gold and showing hidden camera investigations. There are ads for mail-in services playing on every TV channel, and many jewelry stores have signs in their windows saying [...]

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