Gold Flakes In Bottles... How Much Are They Worth?

They are great mixed with paint , I have one of my motorcycles painted with black paint mixed with gold flakes.

Came out great and really shined in the sunlight.

The bottle is worth more than the gold.

$9? wow... They are much cheaper on ebay, even with free shipping.

If I needed to buy something gold for my wife, I'd go with a 1/4oz or 1/10oz American Eagle, Canadian Maple Leaf, South African Krugerrand or Chinese
Panda. The Panda will cost a little more than the others, but a 1/4oz coin will go around $380-ish and a 1/10oz coin will go around $170-ish.

These aren't trinkets or stocking stuffers, but you'll have something that will have and retain value (within the context of however the gold market fares).

Definitely. A nice Taittinger champagne bottle would work fine for the 1/10oz coins, but you'd need a real wide-necked bottle for a 1/4oz coins. You'd
probably have to use a half gallon liquor bottle for those, but filling one of those bottles up with fractional gold coins would be an ambitious objective.

A search for "gold leaf" will help seekers further.
Since gold can be hammered into sheets which are VERY thin, the weight is pretty minimal.
Then it is sliced into tiny bits. Sure, real gold, but not very much of it in a bottle on a weight basis.
Warning: distinguish between "metal leaf" and "gold leaf."
"Metal Leaf" often does not contain gold.

A novelty item. Pretty, but not really an investment.

HGE=heavy gold electroplate. Plated. Electroplate can be only a few atoms thick... heavy electroplate, well, no discernible change in value.

I've seen gold flakes made out of "goldine"; a bright brass. They were a very fine foil and will act as real gold flakes in a liquid. If you come across a bag of goldine flake it is about as compressable as steel wool, and light as feather... pretty much the opposite of gold.

I am of the opinion that very few gold flake vials on ebay contain any gold whatsoever. You can buy bulk "golden flakes" and start your own ebay empire and claim ignorance or claim that the original seller said they were gold (well, gold in colour anyway)... when someone actually does a test and complains.

If you must have a vial of the stuff, the RCM vial from the RCM would be my bet.

p.s. I still do have my bag of goldine flakes. It was filler in an old tyme bottle of medicinal/dental gold flake... I wanted the bottle and the seller was quite forward that the original contents were long gone, but it was filled with this stuff.

I agree.

There are many threads on the goldrefiningforum where these vials have been verified to contain no gold at all. They are copper based alloys. You would think it was profitable enough to sell gold foil, but apparently it is even more profitable to sell fake gold foil.