What we buy

Gold.

Every karat from 8K to 24K. Scrap, bench stock, broken jewellery and dental, in whatever state it came off the bench in.

Mixed lots are normal. They are separated and weighed by grade while you watch, before anything is agreed.

A cast gold bar, photographed against a plain ground.

A tangled heap of yellow gold chains in mixed link styles, some with broken links and missing clasps. — Broken chain

Four small piles of scrap gold jewellery set apart from each other, each pile a different shade of yellow. — Sorted by karat

A small heap of yellow gold dental crowns. — Dental gold

The grades we buy.

All seventeen. A dealer holding 11K or 13K should be able to find it on the list rather than guess whether it is covered.

A scale showing every karat from 8K to 24K, each marked separately, so no karat is rounded into a band.

Every karat, eight through twenty-four

Seven plain gold bands in a row, shading from pale yellow to deep yellow. — Graded by colour

The assay is witnessed, so you see what the lot tests at.

How it is assayed.

The lot is weighed in front of you, then read on XRF. Every lot, and you watch the reading taken.

Plated and gold-filled material is not bought at all. It is refused. It is separated out at the counter while you watch it come out, and it goes back across the counter with you.

A lot at the assay splits two ways: solid karat gold is read on XRF, then bought, while plated and gold-filled material is separated out and refused.

What is bought, and what is refused

A heap of solid gold scrap set apart from plated costume pieces whose plating has worn through. — Plated set aside

A handheld XRF analyser held against a plain gold ring on a test pad. — Read on XRF

Nothing is agreed until you have seen the reading.

What to expect.

Your unit: Weigh it in grams, pennyweight or troy ounces, whichever you weigh in. Every figure that comes back is in the same unit, because that is the one you can check.
Getting it here: Come to us at Booth 57, 37 W 47th St, New York, any weekday, or we come to you within about five hours of New York. The lot is weighed and read in front of you. Nothing ships.
Settlement: Same day, in cash, once the lot is assayed.

An open wooden box of graded brass calibration weights, each in its own recess. — Calibrated weights

A thick plain kraft envelope, flap tucked in, lying flat. — Paid in cash

Also buying silver and platinum at the same counter.

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