What Are Gold Flake Vials, And Are They Worth Anything?

I've wondered if people put together these vials using gold leaf -- like the kind used to decorate cakes. One ounce of gold can be rolled out into many many square meters of gold leaf. It's an incredibly thin material. If these flakes contain rolled leaf, one would have to purchase thousands of bottles to put together even a gram of gold.

Gold leaf is an interesting material. Some of the architectural structures that are covered in gold leaf look like they contain lots of gold. In reality, it might amount to a couple tens of ounces due to how amazingly thing gold can be rolled.

While I haven't melted down gold, I've made a couple rings from silver via lost wax casting. I actually used 1 ounce American Silver Eagles. No reason Gold Eagles or Canadian Maple Leafs (if you need 24k) couldn't serve as a source for your project. Cheaper though would be to simply melt gold scrap which can usually be had for less than spot.

pretty but pretty worthless

Consider this;

Two one ounce gold coins can be thinned out to cover an entire tennis court!

I read that Gold is the most malleable substance on Earth. I don't know what kind of press that they use to make gold leaf. The wrestler Gold Dust used to throw out gold leaf by the handful when he got out next to the audience.
That pretty much tells You what it's worth if guys use it for a gimmick!.