CH>JF>Personal opinion (Which is worthless by the way) He's legal and not
  >  >liable for either civil or criminal action.  He is properly identifying
  >  >his product and if the buyer is not smart enough to understand the
  >  >difference between solid and filled,  Well..... That is the buyer's
  >  >problem.
CH>Under federal law, it is unlawful to mark or stamp jewelry as ___K gold
  >unless it really is solid ___K gold.
I've established that by a USC cite I found on the net. My problem is
that this joker isn't marking his stuff.  I'm not sure but what that
might just be his loophole. It doesn't say that the jewelry has to be
marked, just that if marked, it must be marked accurately.
These laws are peculiar to precious metals because of the ease of duping
even the experts.  Pure junk can be made to look and feel like real
gold.
There are some rules defining the terminology.  It is as you say, 14k by
definition is _solid_ gold at not less than 58.3% pure. Again, I'm not
sure if a crime is involved in lying about the product as long as you
don't affix a mark on it to that affect.
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