I recently bought three pieces of jewelery, mainly to take apart and re-use. They are all from the same source, the stones in one piece I know are real from personal experience but how can I find out about the other two pieces? I do not want a valuation, simply someone to say yay or nay. I thought it would be fairly easy but my local jewelers said that I needed to find a working jeweler as they can only do valuations and test diamonds.

Any advice much appreciated.