I want to make my new Sterling Silverware look older, how can I do that?
2007-02-05 10:44:53 · 7 answers · asked by Wally Bar 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Hydrogen Peroxide is often used on silver to give it an aged look that will even fool the experts. Thats because it contains the very same chemical that ages silver in the first place, that is Oxygen in the air.
Go to drug store and get a bottle of Hydrogen peroxide and put some in a perfume sprayer. Then heat up your silverware piece with a hair dryer, the spray with the peroxide. You will instantly see oxidization take place and that "old look" will be there.
Sulfur compounds can actually pit the surface of silver as the sulfur is converted to Sulfuric Acid in the presence of air moisture or condensate. Surfuric acid is a strong Oxidizing agent, so strong in fact on Silver it will pit it. Whereas the Hydrogen peroxide will oxidize the surface and immediately provide that oxide that will protect the silver below. No pitting will occur with Hydrogen Peroxide for that very reason.
2007-02-05 11:35:16 · answer #1 · answered by James M 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why would you want Sterling Silverware to look older? It detracts from its beauty.
2007-02-05 10:47:48 · answer #2 · answered by Legsology07 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Leave it out to 'oxidize'. Especially in the kitchen where things get steamed up and temperatures fluctuate. Oils from your hands help to tarnish sterling faster, too.
2007-02-05 10:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by bfwh218 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is not sterling silver. it would desire to be nickel-silver, that's an alloy used to make extra maximum reasonably-priced cutlery or it would desire to be an alloy of metallic. If it grew to become into plated, it may be marked on the lower back as 'EPNS' . If it grew to become into Sterling, it could have the silver mark of the producer.
2016-09-28 11:31:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can purchase a product called "liver of sulfur" from a jewelry supply business, or you can rub the silver with cooked egg yolk or garlic.
2007-02-05 11:00:01 · answer #5 · answered by Dorcas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Liver of sulpur.You can find it at jewelry supply companies.It is used to give silver an antiqued look.Try www.riogrande.com
2007-02-05 10:55:17 · answer #6 · answered by Cheese 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
burn it.
2007-02-05 10:47:44 · answer #7 · answered by CLEMVIER 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋