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Clever shopping: how not to buy a fake

Clever shopping: how not to buy a fake

All natural always was held in high esteem and was expensively appreciated. Precious metals and stones, a skin, silk and a wool quite often replaced money. But even centuries ago, when the chemistry did not prosper yet, fakes already existed – умельцы gave out alloys for gold, and glass for diamond. What to speak about our century of high technologies! Female magazine Lady Boss gives advice how to distinguish the original from a copy and not to allow itself to deceive, getting expensive things.

Skin

Still recently all was bought safely by leather jackets, bags and gloves if the product smelt as "skin". As the natural skin smells to tell difficult, it is possible unless to present. But, nevertheless, this aroma knew all. We will believe, that after repeated processings and raw materials colouring there was a skin smell, but also it now with success have learnt to forge - special отдушки a-lja «a natural skin» with success all manufacturers use practically
Leatherette.

So to buy a product «smelling as a skin» I do not advise. I will open to you a secret which experts have shared with me - qualitatively manufactured skin does not smell absolutely. But, nevertheless agreeing on purchase to be guided only by a smell or its absence it is not necessary. There are some more methods which set will help to choose the original.

So-called "knight's move" is to set fire to a skin slice. We will lower set of inconveniences: when sellers to set fire do not resolve or simply there is no suitable site of a skin for similar experiment. But even if you have managed to find such slice, is compelled to upset you: skin. замы last generation and a natural skin burn absolutely equally.

But not all so is sad. Some ways of difference still remain.

Look at a material cut. The natural skin on a textile basis does not happen, that it is impossible to tell about a substitute.

Put to a product a palm. The natural skin will heat up, and some time will keep heat, and the substitute remains cold.

The water drop on a product from a qualitative natural skin will be absorbed, and the site will darken. The artificial skin with a similar problem will not consult.

The comment of the expert:

Valentina Obozova, the seller:
«To deceive the buyer not in our interests. When there are doubts as a material, ourselves suggest the buyer to be convinced in натуральности just by means of the ways set forth above. And we use them before sale and the goods calculation on a show-window casually not to deceive people.
Though unfair sellers suffices. Those who hold back ways of check of a material or deny them, simply fool the buyer, hoping to give out a fake for the original ».

But not all so is sad. Substitutes of last generation wearproof, look beautifully and stand much cheaper. For people who for different reasons do not wish to carry a skin of the killed animal it, perhaps, the unique exit to look stylishly. The core and the main distinction – substitutes do not pass air. For what, actually, the natural skin also is appreciated.

Silk

Natural silk – a material royal. Its high price is justified – process thread reception is improbably combined. Silk is an allocation product шёлкоотделительных glands of caterpillars of silkworms at a wave of cocoons. The silk thread is strong, as a steel wire of the same diameter, but it is much more elastic. For today it is the most wearproof thread from all existing.

Products from silk are very beautiful and pleasant for a body. It is thin, smooth and practically weightless material. To carry clothes from silk and to sleep on it not only it is pleasant, but also it is useful for a skin. Silk perfectly breathes and absorbs a moisture, than and differs from synthetic fabrics.

At purchase at once it is necessary to pay attention to the price. High cost is conclusive. From 100 kg of cocoons it is possible to receive about 9 kg of a silk thread. To check up it is possible, having asked the seller the sample. From a fabric slice to pull out one thread, to set fire to it and at once to smell - silk smells палёной as a wool or a horn.

Polyester unlike silk плавится, and viscose decays and smells жжёной as a paper. The baked lump of silk can be pounded fingers, as a usual piece of coal. As silk quickly heats up in hands. If you though time held natural silk – distinguish from a fake can without effort, its touches to a skin it is remembered for a long time. Though the most reliable variant - to buy in specialised shops.

Gold

If it was inconvenient to come into jeweller shops in cheap clothes now turns as behind bread there are built earlier. Certainly, shop to shop рознь. In elite on the former you will not come, and here in budgetary – please! It speaks not that in large quantities deceive people, selling costume jewellery. Simply products there the same budgetary class.

Low cost speaks poor quality of rings and chains. At first sight they massive and large, actually practically weightless. A thickness of metal the minimum. Because chains are torn, замочки on earrings break, and rings are deformed.

And here to understand that, gold it or any alloy difficultly enough. The most important thing – never, under any conditions do not buy gold in the market. Remember that test – the main proof of authenticity. But now it can put even on a monument. Therefore prefer only to the known checked up shops.

On a product there should be two marks which stand exactly, in parallel a product. Do not hesitate to ask a magnifier and attentively to consider, that there it is written. Besides the state brand on a product the digital print of test which shows the maintenance of precious metal is put also.
Be careful some gold brought from abroad – Turkey, China, India. Therefrom fakes go the big stream, and realise them, as a rule, in the markets and in small little shops.

Often gold products happen mixed: from the declared gold of 585th test in its product only third. Other of 333. Here all frankly, is confirmed by sellers – from 585! More often it concerns so-called wattled chains and rings, and as bracelets. Happens and so, that gold - only a covering, and inside there are cheap alloys. To secure itself against it it is possible, buying only in the checked up shops. Also it is not necessary to deceive itself and to trust in a miracle – qualitative gold cannot cost not much.

Brilliants

The best friends to girls - practically the most valuable, that are at the nature. The most expensive brilliants – faultlessly pure. Vials, in a stone stir stains to light reflexion, and the stone any more so sparkles and sparkles. And if the stone does not shine, what for it is necessary? Though many collectors opposite, prefer to pure stones nuggets with defects – they are considered as the unique.

At purchase first of all a brilliant check on cleanliness as natural and artificial brilliants have practically identical properties: hardness, shine, reflective ability. Fortunately, while artificial it is possible to distinguish visually on presence of metal inclusions and yellow shades, and at cost they concede.

Another matter, that in jewels artificial brilliants are used ever less. The basic substitute of a brilliant - фианит (zirconium). It is a synthetic material which is much cheaper, but we will distinguish on colour and shine from a brilliant though has smaller hardness a little. For fast definition of brilliants devices (Diamond tester are used, etc.), at known practice there is enough magnifier.

The comment of the expert

Janchevsky Andrey Mihajlovich, the general director of Open Company "your Gold":

«In what a difference between a fake and the present gold?
1) Test – the gold maintenance in an alloy. The above test, the is more gold maintenance. Most often on sale there are jewels of 585 and 750 tests.
2) Colour – gold can have various colours and shades which depend on the maintenance in an alloy of other metals. Traditional colour of the Russian gold – red (or pink). Recently the fashion includes white gold. Yellow it is popular in foreign manufacturers.

Important! Red gold can be both 585, and 750 tests, the same are fair for gold of any colour. Colour of gold does not depend on test, the colour shade can depend on it only. Besides, jewels from gold of one colour and test, but made by different jeweller factories, can have a various shade of colour. It is connected by that each manufacturer uses the alloy which structure stores in a secret.

Gold – soft metal, therefore, than above the gold maintenance in a product (i.e. the above test) the more product will be subject to deformation, i.e. scratches, etc.

3) the Rhodic covering – serves to simulate or strengthen white colour of gold. Rhodium – precious metal, its cost considerably above gold cost. In due course the rhodic covering can be erased.

Gold test of which the jewel is made, proves to be true a brand Russian пробирной chambers. All jewels sold in territory of the Russian Federation, without dependence from where they are made should to have test. Except test on products of the Russian manufacture there is a print («именник») brands of the manufacturer. The brand is appropriated to manufacturer Probirnoj by chamber and each manufacturer has the unique brand. On products made out of the Russian Federation there can be a brand 14k – corresponds to 583 test or 18k – corresponds to 750 test.

Tests can be put by shock way or by means of the laser (the most modern method). Unlike the test put in the shock way, laser test can be less appreciable.

The statement that the Russian gold is better is absolutely unfair. Gold identical all over the world. Simply we too often faced that the products brought from abroad of poor quality or their test differs from declared for this reason there was such stereotype. The jewels imported into Russia in the illegal way more often mismatch test.

On what to pay attention at purchase of a jewel from gold:
Absence of a time, cracks, etc. is a marriage at moulding

Brilliants and jewels

To begin with let's understand, what stones to consider precious. Jewels concern: a brilliant, alexandrite, an emerald, sapphire, a ruby and natural pearls of the southern seas. All other stones share on semiprecious and поделочные.

Brilliant – the faceted diamond very extended and an expensive jewel. That the brilliant "has played", the certain combination of characteristics is necessary. The basic characteristics of a brilliant: colour, cleanliness, a facet, weight.

Be extremely attentive and apply all possible ways of check of materials. Let substitutes are beautiful and inexpensive, but they never become natural, and cannot possess those properties which are given only by the nature.