What's The Nicest Piece of Jewelry That You Own? (page 6)

OUTLAW

r u the burger king king??.....Minimus

No..Burger King wears cheap shit..

My Jewels are Real..

I was able to father children..

............................... ...OUTLAW

My mom gave me her 18 carat gold wedding ring after my dad died. Its huge, meaning wide with many channels from Baily Banks and Biddle. For an Anniversary my dad had 10 diamonds put in, and a 1 carat in the middle.....The middle is a Zircon !!!!!

I have tons of beautiful sterling silver I have bought through the years but it winds up in a dresser drawer and turns an ugly color as we post! I mean huge weighty pieces but ridiculous to keep up. Kind of like a batch of sterling silver ware.

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ziddina

ReStrangled, about keeping your silver shiny...

Here in Colorado silver seems to tarnish almost overnight if it's exposed to the air - copper without a "resin" sealant has the same problem...

The JoAnn Fabrics stores carry something called "Silver Cloth" - it's often brown or green or khaki - and soaked with a chemical that enables you to polish off the tarnish...

I keep a piece of that in my silver drawer..

The other thing I do is put the freshly-polished silver into sealable (zip-lock-style) bags after it's polished. This tends to keep the silver shiny for months, and helps reduce oxidization on the copper, also.

Hope this helps! Zid

cantleave

designs

My Dad's ring with his birthstone, wear it everyday since he passed, sniff

restrangled

Thanks Zid, I use to buy very nice sterling Jewelry from Spiegel and Marshall Fields in Chicago. I have a necklace and matching bracelet that must weigh close to 1/2 pound or more. Absolute solid sterling...but black as coal at this point. I haven't worn either piece in years. When they were new...absolutely stunning. Small tiny beads in what must contain 20 strands each. I will get them cleaned and store them as suggested. I always think I am taking off a layer of silver if I try and clean them.

r.

dissed

I have a cheap gold wedding ring which I can't find and a gold railroad watch from yesteryears. My wife on the otherhand has some stuff that would make the queen of England jealous.

Dagney

My favorites are earrings that are carved Persian turquoise with rose cut diamonds with a long slender drop, and two necklaces bought downtown for not much money, baroque pearls and semi precious stones strung on silk thread.

mindmelda

My husband carries them between his legs.

LOL I have a fairly decent wedding ring that has a 1 carat stone of moissanite, which isn't a diamond, but a form of silicon carbide found naturally occuring in the remains of meteorites, but can also be made synthetically. It's actually rarer than diamonds in it's natural form, sparkles more intensely than a diamond and is almost as hard.

Pure synthetic Moissanite has been made from thermal decomposition of the preceramic polymer poly(methylsilyne), requiring no binding matrix (e.g. cobalt metal powder).

In other words, it's a synthetic meteorite. Pretty cool, I think.

Don't come and rob me, though. I have guns. *G*

ziddina

Hi, Restrangled...

"I always think I am taking off a layer of silver if I try and clean them...."

Technically, you are... You're removing a very thin layer of oxidized silver... Silver rust, in effect...

Try talking to a jeweler about the best way to clean off those heavy silver pieces. (They sound lovely!) I use the silver cloth for quick touch-ups, not for heavy-duty tasks...

Hope your jewelry is all sparkly, soon!

Zid come to the dark side were sparkly

What's The Nicest Piece of Jewelry That You Own?

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