Hallmarking has been made mandatory on jewelery made of gold. Despite this, people are falling prey to fraud. The reason for this is that customers are not able to identify hallmark jewelry correctly and jewelers take advantage of it. Today we are telling you an easy way to identify the purity of gold jewelery. After which you will find out in a few seconds how much carat is this gold.
Take care of purity
Actually, when buying gold jewelery, firstly find out its purity. 24 carat gold is the purest. But never a 24 carat gold jewelery is made. Because it is very soft. Generally, 22 carat gold is used for (jewelery) jewelery, of which 91.66 per cent is gold. Apart from this, jewelery of 20 carat and 18 carat is also made and sold.
If you take 22 carat gold jewelery then you should know that 2 carat and other metal have been mixed with 22 carat gold. At the same time, when you take 18 carats of jewelery, then 6 carats of metal are mixed in it. If you are buying jewelery for investment then always buy 22 carat jewelery.
How to identify hallmark?
There are 5 types of marks associated with hallmark in purity in jewelery, and these marks are in jewelery. One of it is about a carat. If there is 22-carat jewelery, then it has 916, 875 on 21-carat jewelery and 750 on 18-carat jewelery. At the same time, if the jewelry is of 14 carat, then 585 will be written in it. You can see this mark in jewelery itself. There is no doubt about purity.
One important thing is that many jewelers are putting hallmarks without completing the investigation process. The original hallmark is a triangular mark of the Bureau of Indian Standards. Which is next to the mark of purity of gold carat. Jewelery also has the year of manufacture and the manufacturer’s logo.
In hallmarking, a product is certified to the specified criteria. BIS in India is an organization that checks the quality level being provided to consumers. The hallmarking scheme works under the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, rules and regulations.
An important thing
Always take the original bill from the jewelers. In which it is written that what is the purity of the jewelery you are buying. That is how many carats. Because in future when you go to sell that jewelry, then there should be no problem about its purity and weight.
