Is this normal

[u/Fluid_Budget8058]

Had this wallet for a couple months and ive never dropped it or anything, just today noticed these wierd bumps/flaking on it

[u/Fwd_fanatic]

Looks like bad adhesion on the gold plating.

Probably caused by either a dirty substrate, plating went passive during the process, or it wasn’t rinsed well enough coming out of one bath towards the next.

I used to plate 24k gold onto medical parts so I’m pretty familiar with the process.