Rolled Gold/Rolled Gold
Plate
The process in which a layer
of carat gold alloy
is mechanically bonded to another metal. In the United States the designation
‘rolled gold’ or ‘rolled gold plate’ means that the proportion of gold alloy to
the weight of the entire article is less than one-twentieth; if it is over one-twentieth
it will be designated gold filled. Elsewhere
the term tends to be interchangeable with ‘gold fill’.