Cleaning Vintage Sliver Jewellery. RESULTS Are Amazing!
Hello everyone!
Have you any vintage sliver jewelery looking a bit tarnished in your jewelery collection.
I did.
Here is a fast trick to get that sliver shining like its brand new once again.
Tarnish can ruin the look and value of your sliver so cleaning it is a must.
You dont need harsh chemicals and risk removing any sliver.
Fortunately there's a better way to clean sliver, and it relies on household ingredients and some savvy science.
I got this locket and chain for my 21st birthday it was vintage when it was bought it was Victorian, it shows with the dirt.
And my mum necklace that had became tarnished.
When I found these in one of my meny jewelry boxes.
I at to restore them back to there glory to show them of.
Below my vintage locket looking very dirty indeed.
You will need
Salt and aluminium tin foil a plastic dish 👍
As you can see the locket as aged even more looking dirty.
I use a old plastic dish
I line the dish with foil like below
Add 1 tablespoon of salt to the container
I use sea salt full grains.
They will dissolve in the water
Add hot water to the dish
Like below
Below is my mum necklace it became a bit tarnished so I stopped wearing it .
Not knowing this trick
As you can see it's rather dirty.
I put the sliver pieces into the dish
Like below
As soon as you place your sliver into hot salty water you will notice straight away, it start to work
Your sliver items should rest on the foil making direct contact to the aluminium foil.
You can wrap the foil around the sliver so more foil touches the sliver.
30 mins after,
The science part is cool.
The sliver sulfide (the tarnish) transfers its sulfide ions to the aluminium, converting aluminium sulfide on the foil.
If you look below you will see it floating in the hot water
After 30 mins I was very pleased with the results
With kitchen towel or a clean dry cloth lay your sliver on to dry
Dab it dry with your dry cloth.
Gently buffing the sliver like below
Wow.
It as lifted so much dirt.
I repeated using a clean dry cloth for the mum necklace.
Which to was shining like new
I can were thease now
Such a waste just lieing in my jewellery boxes.
And there we have nice shiny clean sliver
I am very happy to have restored my sliver locket and chain
It looks brand new from the Victorian days
I was a bit apprehensive about this method as I have sentimental value to this piece of sliver
But I'm pleased to say this really works!
No harsh or abrasive chemicals,
I'm sure you all have a sliver necklace, or pandora bracelet it works on it all.
Make it shine bright once more
Hope you try this easy, cheap way to clean all your sliver jewellery.
Thanks for reading 💯
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