The advantages of old gold over new gold are as follows: 1. Old gold is yellow in color, and new gold has strong luster. In the past, in order to make the color of gold more beautiful, gold stores would use some yellow ginger powder to bake the processed gold jewelry.
But the glitter of the new gold is more appealing to contemporary tastes than the yellow of the old.
As a result, the new gold is often finished with a final polishing step.
2, old gold toughness, new gold hardness ancient goldsmiths often bite the soil method to identify the authenticity of gold.
Because of its low hardness, you can see teeth marks when you bite real gold. If there are no teeth marks, it means that there are impurities in it.
After the old gold processing process is completed, there is a process called “tempering”.
Tempering is to reduce the hardness of gold and increase its toughness and ductility.
However, modern jewelry processing technology is becoming more and more advanced, which is not restricted by toughness at all, but more inclined to improve the hardness of gold, which is conducive to wearing.
While the old gold is yellowish and softer, the new gold is lighter and harder.
Because the old gold after many years of wearing, coupled with decades or even hundreds of years of preservation, the surface of the natural formation of a layer of coating pulp, so the old gold will look more yellow color.
Although the old gold is not as bright and pure as the new gold, its real value lies in its craftsmanship and history.
After a lot of time of precipitation and polishing, old gold presents a different aesthetic feeling in front of the world. This value endowed by history is incomparable to that of new gold.
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