A couple years ago while jogging, I found a man''s ring in an empty mall parking lot with the band bent from being run over. The ring is big and gaudy. It''s basically a really wide, 10K yellow gold band and there''s a round cut center stone (around 1.00 CT) surrounded by 8 smaller round cut stones (at least 1.00 CT total. The surface is probably the size of a nickel. Of course, I figured right away it was fake. It''s just too big and ugly not to be. And I figured that if someone spent that much on stones, surely they''d have something nicer than a thin, 10K yellow gold band (the band is really thin/tinny). I tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it.
I came across it last night and I wondered "what if???" But outside of taking it to a store to be inspected, are there any do-it-yourself tests that would let me know if the stones are fake? I took a really sharp utility blade last night and tried to cut into the table on one of the small stones and I couldn''t even make a mark on it. That''s the ONLY reason I even bothered posting this because I figured if they were fake then surely a sharp blade would have cut into the stone. Are there any fake stones that would be that durable?? Any other things I can do myself to confirm it''s fake/real?
I came across it last night and I wondered "what if???" But outside of taking it to a store to be inspected, are there any do-it-yourself tests that would let me know if the stones are fake? I took a really sharp utility blade last night and tried to cut into the table on one of the small stones and I couldn''t even make a mark on it. That''s the ONLY reason I even bothered posting this because I figured if they were fake then surely a sharp blade would have cut into the stone. Are there any fake stones that would be that durable?? Any other things I can do myself to confirm it''s fake/real?