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Care and repair
Cleaning, storing and looking after silver, gold and plated pieces, and what to avoid.
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- Caring for each finishSix finishes that look like cousins, and the care each one needs. What cleans one can strip another.
- How to clean silver jewelleryTarnish is a film of silver sulphide, and there are kinder and harsher ways to remove it. Here is how to choose.
- Re-plating and repairsMost jewellery can be mended. Here is what a jeweller can do, and the little-known law that governs it.
- Storing jewellery so it doesn't tarnishTarnish is mostly a storage problem. Here is how museum conservators keep silver bright, scaled down for a jewellery box.
- All 37 guidesEight topics, from sizing to how a piece is made