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Origins of Silver
The area of Anatolia (modern Turkey) is considered the first major
source of mined silver, having provided the resource to craftsman
throughout Asia Minor. Silver from the Anatolian region largely served
as the source of silver for the Western cultures flourishing in the Near
East, Crete, and Greece. Silver craftsmanship was centered largely in
Asia Minor and Greek Islands.
A Very Popular and Ancient Precious White Metal
This white metal has had an illustrious history, at times being more
highly valued than gold. Long used as a medium of exchange, its name is
synonymous with money. Today, silver has found many new uses including
photography, batteries, auto glass defogger....
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What is Sterling
Silver?
Sterling silver is an alloy of silver containing 92.5%
pure silver and 7.5% other metals, usually copper. The
sterling silver standard has a minimum millesimal
fineness of 925. Because pure silver is so soft, it
should only be used when malleability is required, such
as in handcrafted jewelry featuring weaving and other
intricate designs. High-end Silver jewelry is often...
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Properties of Silver
Silver can be found pure, but is usually mixed with
small amounts of gold, arsenic, and antimony. A natural
alloy of gold and silver is known as Electrum, and is
usually classified as a variety of gold. Silver is a
very resistant mineral. It does not dissolve in most
solutions..
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Beauty of Silver
While other precious metals such as gold and platinum
are priced highly and while some are priced very highly
based on artificial scarcity (for example diamonds),
Mother Earth gives Silver in abundance and it comes as a
better choice due to its cool, white and pleasing luster
with easy care and much better price!
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History of Silver
Silver has always been held in high esteem and displayed
as a status symbol since it was mined approx. 4,000 BC
in Asia Minor. In the earliest Egyptian records, it was
considered more precious than gold. Interestingly, with
all of silver's magical power...
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Price of Silver
Silver, like other precious metals, may be used as an
investment. For more than four thousand years, silver
has been regarded as a form of money and store of value.
However, since the end of the silver standard, silver
has lost its role as legal tender in the United
States...
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Why Alloy Silver with
Other Metals?
Silver is usually alloyed with copper to enhance its
durability and prevent damage to the metal. It is
relatively soft, very malleable, and easily damaged so
it is commonly combined with other metals to produce a
more durable product. The most popular of these alloys
is sterling silver...
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The Healing Power of
Silver
In general, Silver is believed to benefit circulation,
help lungs and throat, and detoxify the blood, to aid in
the treatment of degenerative brain diseases, balancing
of hormones and chemicals and improvement of nerve
impulse transmission. They also use it...
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Myths about Silver
Legends of Jewels, Quartz
Mythology, Myths about crystals and myths about jewelry;
Some of those ancient myths and legends have come down
intact through the centuries. Others have evolved and
mutated as result of the input of other cultures...
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Facts about Silver
Silver can be hammered into sheets so thin that it would
take 100,000 of them to stack an inch high. It can be
drawn into a wire finer than a human hair. It is this
ductility (or ability to be formed) that makes silver
the wonderful art form that it is...
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Silver in Medicine
Silver has been used in the
health field since, well, for as long as there has been
a health field. It was used in times of antiquity for
fighting germs and healing tissue, and those uses have
continued to this day. It has been undergoing a rapid
resurgence in use...
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How to Care for Your
Silver Jewelry
As in any jewelry including
gold, platinum jewelry studded with diamonds or precious
colored stones, we recommend that you check your jewelry
every 6 months Prongs can wear thin and let stones fall
out. Chains and Pearl Strands weaken with wear...
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Buying Jewelry from Jewelry Stores
Online
Many people worry about buying rings on
the internet for a reason as simple as not being able to know their
correct ring size and therefore, not get the correct ring size among
others of course. We need to remember one important thing about
buying jewelry online....
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