At our shop, we do not just sell vintage jewelry. We also
consult with customers who have questions about the care of their pieces. Some
need help with starting a friend or daughter on the path to collecting these
jewels. After working with a wide variety of online and in-store customers, we
have put together the top five jewelry mistakes folks make without knowing it.
Do you fall into one of these categories?
1. Exposing jewelry to soap and water.
Whether you wear your earrings in the shower, keep on your
rings while cooking and washing your hands to avoid cross contamination, or
routinely sit in the sauna with your necklaces on, it is time to stop the
behavior. For starters, hard water combined with soap scum will dull even the brightest diamond. The moist heat of the sauna and chemicals contained in
cleaners may have adverse effects on the metal settings of your jewels. Keep a
small dish next to the sink and shower that holds your treasures. 2. Putting on perfume or hairspray while wearing jewelry.
Your gems should go on last – after you
have put some perfume behind the ears and sprayed your hair. If you ignore this
advice when wearing pearls, you may break down their luster.
3. Pulling DIY jewelry cleaning advice from the Internet.
It is perfect for kitten videos and
zucchini bread recipes. But when it comes to jewelry cleaning advice, steer
clear. Far too many folks are overly fond or combining kosher salt with lemon
juice to make a paste and use it on pretty much anything and everything. If you
do this to your pearls or coral, you can wreak havoc. Talk to your trusted jeweler when you need help with cleaning a jewel.4. Forgetting the annual well check.
Jewels with gems need regular checkups. Prongs and settings can
weaken over time. Failure to have a jeweler check your pieces and tighten the
prongs if needed can result in stone loss.
5. Storing jewels improperly.
If you keep your pearls in an airtight bag, have rings with
diamonds tossed in with jewels featuring different stones, and overall just put
the necklaces and earrings into the same box, you end up with a disaster on
your hands. Pearls need to breathe; diamonds will scratch stones lower on the
Mohs scale; and the jumble of earring posts, dangles, and chains tangles.
Invest in a proper jewelry box for the storage of your pieces.
At Peter Suchy Jewelers we are experts in all types of
vintage, estate and antique jewelry. We hope you’ll stop by our showroom
located at 1137 High Ridge Road in Stamford Connecticut.
Or, hop on over to our top-rated BigCommerce Store where you’ll
find all the vintage gemstone jewelry you see here. If you find a
listing has ended, please email us at info@petersuchyjewelers.com as we
may still have the item in stock.
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