estate jewlery

[cloomis]

I just bought some estate jewlery and one piece is a large gold plated necklace ,wich has jewls on it and gold leafs.,My question is,what metal is used to make the jewlery before it is plated?
I put a torch to a small section of it and it looked like solder melting out of it.

 

[butcher]

my belief most any metals can be plated, other countrys can use even mixtures of metals, could be lead, tin, pewter,----glass, ceramics, feathers,even leaves from trees can be plated with gold, usually a thin plate of metal that gold will plate to is plated onto base metal ect.

 

[goldsilverpro]

Are you talking about actual leaves from plants or, are you talking about those tiny decorative metal leaves that are put on so-called Black Hills jewelry.

http://www.allblackhillsgoldjewelry.com/shopping.asp?nProductWebsiteID=15

 

[cloomis]

keep in mind this is a large necklace 3in wide and weighs 27 grams the leaves are small decrative and made of metal but the entire thing is gold plated

 

[Lino1406]

Can also be electroplated, after appropriate
metallizing