How to spot fake and real sterling silver jewelry

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How to Spot Fake and Real Sterling Silver Jewelry
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Introduction

• Silver is an attractive and stylish metal that
  would make a great accompaniment to any jewelry
  set. While real silver does not really cost much,
  compared to the likes of gold, there leftovers a
  wide market for the deal of sterling silver,
  particularly among the younger customers.
• Sadly, to the untrained eye, comparing fake
  versus sterling silver can be pretty a task --
  and sellers often take benefit of this lack of
  information and sell fake versions at the price
  of the genuine ones. Your goal, therefore, is to
  find out how not to get duped.

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Fake Vs Sterling Silver

• How can you tell fake from sterling silver? Here
  are a few tips
• 1. Genuine silver is stamped with a trademark.
• Like gold, genuine silver comes with a little
  stamp or etching which contains in turn about its
  silversmith and the date it was ready Whether it
  is device stamped or hand stamped is good-looking
  easy to distinguish by just looking at it. A
  stamp that has 'EPNS' on it is an symbol that it
  is sterling silver, as it just means 'electro
  plated nickel silver'.

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2. Silver jewelry should be at least 92.5
untainted silver.

• Silver used alone is too soft to meaning
  properly as jewelry. Thus, all silver jewelry
  should be at least 92.5 pure silver, with the
  rest made up of suitable alloys to help it
  hardens. This is normally indicated by a "925"
  drawing on the jewelry itself. Of course, the
  slight this number, the earlier it is to being
  less and less real silver. These drawing can be
  tricky to spot-look on the back of pendants, on
  clasps, and on the surrounded by of rings for
  real silver markings.

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3. Watch out for silver plate Silver colored
jewelry may simply be silver plated.

• Silver plated jewelry, which is not totally real
  silver, would usually have an "A1" stamped on it,
  along with its makers engraving. When the silver
  tarnishes or chips off, it reveals the real metal
  used beneath, which can cause skin harms, like
  rashes and metal allergies, for some people. be
  careful of selling items that are simply silver
  plated, especially if your skin is oversensitive.
• 4. Run it through a nitric acid experiment.
• A great way to test whether the silver jewelry
  you have is the genuine deal is by difficult it
  nitric acid. You can choose to have this done by
  the local jewelry store or you may do it yourself.

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• To do this, select a part of the jewelry that is
  least obvious as the site to run your experiment.
  Wipe this portion carefully to cause a break in
  the plating of the exterior. Place a few drops of
  nitric acid onto the site and wait a few minutes.
  If the liquid becomes overcast grey, then it is
  sterling silver but if it becomes green, then
  what you have in your hands is just silver
  plated.
• Always keep in intellect that there is no such
  thing as silver jewelry that is 100 pure silver.
  As mentioned previously, silver has to be mix
  with other alloys to make it strapping sufficient
  to serve its cause.

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• The best way to make sure that you purchase only
  genuine silver pieces is to buy your jewelry from
  a trusted seller.
• There are many E-store providing silver jewelry
  online. So if you are looking for Personalized
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  like birthday, marriage anniversary, gifts and
  other than must check all the above things.
  Suetables is an inspired Canadian-based company
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