Silver Alloys
初め, customers need to understand that silver used in jewelry is usually an alloy which means a metal mixture of two or more elements from the periodic table. Silver is an element. Other metallic elements are alloyed with silver for various reasons that are described below.
Quality Marks
2番, a lot of finished silver jewelry will have a quality stamp somewhere on the piece. This is the quickest way to identify quality. There are cases of fraudulent marking but they are fairly rare. These tiny markings may only be legible under magnification. しかし, ジュエリーアイテムまたはコンポーネントは、利用可能な表面積がある場合にのみスタンプを押す必要があります。. そのため, 小さな所見や部品は、高品質の合金であっても刻印されていないことがよくあります。. Quality stamp standards are described in the sections below.