Silver Alloys
Først, 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
Sekund, 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. Imidlertid, smykker eller komponenter er bare pålagt å bære et stempel når det er et tilgjengelig overflateareal. Av den grunn, små funn og komponenter er ofte ustemplede selv om de er kvalitetslegeringer. Quality stamp standards are described in the sections below.