What does “925 Italy” refer to on a silver chain necklace?
925 stands for 92.5% silver which is sterling silver. The rest is alloys that make it more durable and harder like nickel. Many folks like me are allergic to nickel so prefer gold posts for example on earrings. Italy means that it was made in Italy, even if it is an American company like Tiffany it will say “Italy” for pieces that were made in Italy. The silver content for sterling is 92.5 %, for 14k gold gold content is 58.5 so gold the stamp is 585; 18k it’s 750 또는 75% and for 24k it’s 995 또는 99.5% 금. The higher the gold content the softer the metal. So if you were a princess that had 10 inch nails and didn’t have to work you might prefer 995/24k. If you are a person that uses their hands a lot, you might use the higher gold content items for going out and use 14k for every day. Interesting that the USA has always been a 14k kind of country for most people. Back in the day jewelry generally was worn only on special occasions for the middle class anyway and given on anniversaries etc. In most of Europe it’s been 18k, middle east 18k or 22k or 24k same in China and Asia. Some places in Asia are sterling silver mostly. When gold was more difficult to mine, 9k was very common in the UK and USA.
What is the actual worth of a 925 silver necklace from Italy?
925 means that it is sterling silver and is 92.5% 순수한은. Being from and/or manufactured in Italy does not add any value, except to people who prefer to say it’s Italian like some people pay more to say they buy their jewelry at Tiffany & Co. Today silver is selling for $14.15 per ounce so an ounce of 925 silver is $13.09 ($14.15 x .925). So that is the intrinsic value of the metal if you are selling it for scrap value (For less than one ounce you can use $0.65 per penny weight or $0.42 per gram)…BUT silver jewelry is priced based on the workmanship that was involved in making the item and overhead of the jeweler that sold it. The value of the metal is much lower than the value of a jewelry item when sold through a jewelry store.
What is the jewelry marked 925 Italy worth?
Jewelry made from at least 925 parts out of 1000 (written as 925/1000) of fine silver may stamped Sterling or Sterling Silver . … You will sometimes see sterling silver jewelry stamped with the term 925, which means its 92.5 percent Silver and its a product of Italy .
Let’s also say the current market value of silver is at $50 per ounce (troy ounce). FIRST–There are 31.1 grams in a troy ounce, so you would divide 50 ~에 의해 31.1 to find the price per gram of solid silver. Here, the cost per gram would equal $1.6077.