This phrase actually makes a lot of sense. Because Gold is rare, if you have a piece of gold, you should treasure it. Time is gold because every second time is passing and you can't go back to change it, so you must treasure every second of life.
Inch, Foot, Yard, Mile
This means that it is 18 karat gold.
A 14K gold shell means that it is not solid gold. It is a lot like plating. Only the outside is gold.
phd on a 10 k gold ring
An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time was created on 2005-01-25.
Gold By The Inch was created in 1998.
The ISBN of Gold By The Inch is 0802136494.
Gold By The Inch has 209 pages.
If you look closer, you probably will see that the mark is not OE, but '''GE'''. On jewelry, GE means Gold Electroplate. Federal standards for gold electroplate (G.E.) are that the gold must be at least 7 mils (millionths of an inch) of an inch thick and of a fineness of 10K (karat) or better.
gold electroplate "An electro-chemical plating process in which gold of at least 10kt is bonded to another metal. Gold electroplate is no less than seven-millionths of an inch thick."
A lost inch of gold may be reclaimed, but never a lost inch of time. K'ang Dynasty (China) proverb
A 3 inch gold needlecase.
gold electroplate "An electro-chemical plating process in which gold of at least 10kt is bonded to another metal. Gold electroplate is no less than seven-millionths of an inch thick."
112 lbs
Your 5.25 cubic inch nugget would weigh about 1660 grams. There are 31.1 grams of gold in a troy ounce. That means you have about 53.4 troy ounces of gold. Gold is vended and priced in both grams and ounces. Ball park figure is about $48,000 at this writing. Use the link to dial in a correct current answer. Gold weighs about 19.3 grams/cc for any future calculations you may wish to make.
made in Korea. 99.9% of time is goldplated, not solid gold. Only way to tell is acid test.