They are gold plated. Solid gold is much too soft!
Plated
Gold plated over silver means that the ring is made of silver with a thin layer of gold plated to it. It is not solid gold but solid silver with gold on it.
Sterling means that an item is solid silver of a certain quality, not plated.
Solid Brass.
It depends on which model. There were 3 Selmer Omega flute models. The FLOM300 was a student model that was silver plated throughout. The FLOM200 had a solid silver headjoint with a silver plated body. The FLOM100 was the only one that was solid silver throughout the headjoint and body. The keys were silver plated. I hope this helps.
It is a solid peice and can be engraved.
Rub it, if you can smell tarnish its not solid gold because gold doesn't rust. Its probably what it's plated to!
solid gold and silver is more expensive and even heavier. Gold and silver is pretty so being plated gives the same effect.
Not usually since gold is, well, solid gold.
It's probably plated with 24k gold, but not solid gold.
it means that its not solid gold its plated or dipped in gold
cut it to see