What is the best method to store 925 necklaces/jewelry?
Sterling silver jewelry will oxidize very quickly if it is left exposed to the elements. Intricate pieces of all metals will quickly pick up dust and soot from the air and lose their detailed craftmanship under the dirt, and many stones and pearls can easily be affected by changes in temperature, humidity and exposure to sunlight over time. Safety suggests that keeping all your jewelry out on a display stand and exposed to all to see is not the best idea. Do you really trust every single person who enters your home THAT much that you would leave your diamond studs laying around or your grandmother’s pearl choker on a pedestal, waiting for sticky fingers to come by?
Invest in a well crafted and well thought out jewelry box and you will never regret it. Make sure there are multiple levels, slots for rings, boxes of different sizes to keep different size earrings together, and larger spaces for bangles and cuffs. It should be long enough in width to lay your necklaces down flat if they are easily tangled.
Use tiny zip lock backs liberally. EVERY jewelry store on earth uses them behind the scenes to keep things organized and clean long term for storage until it’s time to display the piece. For sterling silver jewelry, zip lock bags are critical to long term maintenance. Put a piece of sterling in a zip lock, put a strip of anti-tarnish paper inside the bag, push all the air out before you close it, ومن ثم قم بإسقاطها في صندوق مجوهرات بغطاء يُغلق بإحكام. يمكنك أن تطمئن إلى ذلك 20 بعد سنوات من الآن، ستظل قطعة المجوهرات هذه تبدو جديدة تمامًا. نفس القطعة ستكون سوداء من التشويه 3 أشهر على حامل جميل ولكنه غير فعال، وإذا لم تقم بتنظيفه بانتظام، فسوف يصبح قريبًا جدًا من القذارة ولن ترتديه مرة أخرى أبدًا.
وينطبق هذا بشكل أكبر على الذهب عيار 14 قيراط, والذي يتحول إلى اللون البني القبيح بسرعة كبيرة إذا لم تبقيه مغلقًا. حتى الذهب الخالص يستفيد من إبقائه مختومًا; فهو يحافظ على الغبار والجسيمات في الهواء (سخام, زيت, عطر, إلخ.) من الالتصاق بالمعدن وتخفيف اللمعان مع مرور الوقت. أي شخص يرتدي قطعة ذهبية لسنوات سوف يعرف بالضبط ما أعنيه; it just gets dull and needs to be cleaned once in a while to return it to that classic warm glow. Leaving gold out on a counter does exactly the same thing. With the price of gold these days, that would truly be criminal!