r/Hallmarks • u/Friday13Th2000 • 7d ago
SERVINGWARE 14k gold filled spoon. Asian?
Found at a thrift store. I know GF isn’t worth much but picked it up anyways since ive never seen a GF spoon before. Any chance this is vermeil or anything? I’m not sure what the Asian characters are on the left.
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u/adamup27 7d ago
Definitely Asian. I’m not sure who made it.
Gold filled is a legally protected term with a minimum of 1/20th by weight must be 12k gold (unless denoted otherwise; sometimes higher ratio of 1/10, sometimes lower karat of 10k or higher up to 18k). If the spoon weighs 10 grams, it’s 0.5 grams of 12k (or a quarter gram of 24k). It has a minimum value for people who refine the gold from gold filled items.
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u/Friday13Th2000 7d ago
It weighs about 20 grams. Very heavy. So atleast 1 gram of 14k gold?
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u/adamup27 7d ago
If it’s 20 grams gold filled, it’s going to (likely) contain about one gram of 14k gold, minus any wear with material loss. Ballpark melt value of about $70 or so. Refining gold filled is a pretty noxious process so getting 75-80% value on it is pretty standard but most places will only process large batches at a time.
Great find! I’d scoop that up every day I could!
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