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In European countries and in many other places, most jewellery manufacturers use a decimal system to express the purity of a piece of karat gold jewellery.  In North America and Britain, they mostly use the karat system.  Both systems represent the purity of the gold alloy used in making the jewellery.  The “karat mark” expresses [...]

Sadly, one of the things we frequently have to do is inform someone that a nice looking piece of jewellery, convincingly stamped “18K”, is in fact not gold at all.  Frequently it turns out that these items were purchased in a foreign country while on holiday.  This doesn’t mean that buying jewellery as a souvenir [...]