posted 02-17-2017 03:53 PM            

I also understand that a Gold Filled object has substantially more gold than than a similar object which has been Gold Plated.

posted 02-18-2017 08:57 AM            

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I also understand that a Gold Filled object has substantially more gold than than a similar object which has been Gold Plated.

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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. If the metal that is being clad on one object is low such as 10K while the gold in the plating on another object is high gold content such as 24K, then that will make a difference. Also the thickness of the gold that is being clad vs the thickness of the deposited gold in plating will make a difference. Gold filled normally means that 1/20th of the weight of the object is made up of the gold cladding alloy but I am not sure that there is much intensive proofing of this amount in countries where there is little control on markings. In any event, since there is so little metal even when the 1/20th standard is met, and since it is typically only 10K or 14K gold, and since gold plating can be almost any thickness with quality objects having thick plating, it is hard to say that gold filled will always have more actual gold than plated gold. Perhaps in more cases than not gold filled will have more gold than gold plated, but not always. In either case, I do not think that the amount of actual gold will be such that the commercial value of a quality piece of gold plate will be much different than a piece of gold filled, especially on quality plated objects.