10 Reasons to Invest in Gold Jewelry

The asian markets are investing in gold. The following 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry should get you thinking about its merits too.....

1. Luxury Consumers

Sixty percent of the world’s population resides in the countries extending from Afghanistan to the micro-states of Oceania. Many of these people speak Arabic as their national language.

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That makes more than one billion new Chinese, Middle-Eastern and India luxury consumers who know the value of buying gold in the form of recession proof, portable, miniature works of art - antique gold jewelry.

People from these regions know from past experience, the security of investing in gold as opposed to fiat currencies. Experience have taught them, that fiat money is only as good as the value we place on it.

Take for example, the emerging Asian-Markets and the impact the unprecedented growth will have on the luxury market and the gold market in the years to come.

2. Questionable On-Line Marketing

Some of the better lab created diamonds are moissanite diamonds. This substance, which didn't come on the market until 1998, so closely resembles a diamond that even experts have a hard time telling the two stones apart without a special instrument.

Synthetic moissanite diamonds fool electric diamond testers by erroneously indicating "diamond"! Moissanite sells for about one-tenth the price of diamonds.

Diamond imitations have been made for hundreds of years, but nothing as convincing as what you see around today.

Another one of 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry is because if the diamond is the original in the jewelry, you gain an antique diamond cut along with the store of gold value.

3. The Test-of-Time

Investing in antique gold is as old as the hills and much older than stocks and shares and fiat currency markets. Gold antique has stood the test of time and this is another one of 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry.

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Another one of 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry is that in the past, buying and selling fine antique jewelry was conducted mostly in private and many antique jewelry dealers like it that way.

As the current global melt-down escalates, gold's holding its own, the performance of gold is unmatched. When you invest in Gold antique jewelry your money is safer than paper dollars.

4. Recession-Proof

Antique gold jewelry does not hit you with bank charges and is not subject to inflation. With inflationary scenarios investors need an asset class with a relatively fixed supply that will at least increase with inflation and is likely to attract speculative demand as a consequence.

Precious metals achieves this with low annual production in relation to total supply, and converts into currency as fiat currencies lose their value.

Now, as for investing in Natural Pearls - well, don't hold your breathe. A strand of Natural Pearls are more rare and valuable than any of the other types of pearls put together, even the Tahitian black pearls.

Ounce-for-ounce, natural pearls are more expensive than gold. Who says so? Christies, that's who. In a recent article, by Layla Haroon, of the City Times, Director of Jewellery at Christie’s, says that natural pearls, yields a better return than Gold!

Most natural pearls from the persian gulf have been bought-up by pearl collectors already. Count yourself lucky if you ever get to see a natural pearl in your lifetime.

5. Higher Melt-Down Price than New Gold

Another one of 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry and in particular antique gold, is because antique gold has a higher melt-down price. Most people don't even consider the melt-down price, (scrap-value) of their antique gold jewelry. But did you know that high-quality antique gold jewelry has a higher retail price above the spot gold price than gold bullion?

Take Platinum for example, popular in jewelry from the early 20th century. Antique specialists, Ralph and Terry Kovels say: "Old platinum jewelry, the metal popularly used in high quality Art deco jewelry is more than likely made of metal that's at least 85% platinum." But platinum is very expensive today and New platinum jewelry may be made of metal that's only, wait for it - 58.5% platinum!

Not surprisingly, the New platinum alloy is causing controversy because the hallmarks contains the word “plat” or platinum.” Sounds like another marketing mash-up, if you ask me.

When you invest in gold and platinum antique jewelry you are significantly reducing your chances of being duped.

6. Transportable

Good things come in small sizes and gold jewelry is one of them. You can wear gold, and you know exactly where your wealth is if you are wearing it yourself.

Gold facts are: Au, or gold, has the periodic number of 79, a boiling point of 2,856°C or 5,173°F, a standard atomic weight of 196.966569 g/mol and is metallic yellow in appearance.

On the other hand, the gold market can be extremely shadowy with unsavory characters lurking in murky places attempting to place risky barriers between owners and their gold.

There are basically 3 ways of buying gold and when you buy physical gold jewelry you get to see, wear and pet your investment yourself.

7. a Historical Value

7. b Heirloom Value

The heirloom factor is another great one of ten reasons to invest in gold. Premier Antique jewelry is the perfect gift between family members and gives great pleasure, and sentimental value and shows you care, while still building your antique jewelry collection for the future.

8. Fashionable

Women like knowing they can put their investment where they can see it. Wearing a dress make out of stocks, bonds and gold certificates, would look more than a bit tacky, right?

9. The Time is Always Right to Invest in Gold but Now It Just Got Better!

One of the 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry is because of the price of gold. The real price of gold, according to James Turk, founder of GoldMoney, says that if you invest in gold at its' present price of $900 today, (December 2009 now over $1000 per ounce- click here for current gold price ) -opens new window.

The point is, it's still relatively undervalued, which basically means it's a good time to be buying gold before it goes over the roof headed towards the moon.

Gold is still a long way from the purchasing power an ounce of gold achieved in January 1980.

So if gold in the future were to reach a $6,255 gold price, (this is not impossible) the inflation between now and then would require gold to reach an even higher price to equal the purchasing power it had in January 1980.

There's one big difference between buying and selling antique jewelry in the past and investing in antique gold today:

10. The Internet

The internet has changed the rules of conducting business forever and is the last of the 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry is because buyers can now buy jewelry online and sellers need not even leave their homes.

Here's a confession....there were just so many good reasons why investing in antique gold jewelry is anything but antique, that I had a hard time working out exactly which 10 reasons to invest in gold jewelry to include on this page.

If you can afford to invest in gold antique jewelry there simply hasn't been a better time to start. And, as to how much gold you should actually buy? Well, as much as you can possibly lay your hands on.

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