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If You Love Jewelry, Read This Piece

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Almost all women love jewelry as a gift. If you need to find just the right jewelry gift but have no idea what to buy, this article is for you. Here are some suggestions for selecting and purchasing jewelry as a gift or for yourself.

Keep your jewelry in a relatively air-tight container, and minimize its exposure to humidity. Ideally, you should keep them in drawstring bags or in a jewelry box. Air and humidity can tarnish metals of all types. Precious metals are able to be polished and retain their luster, but the non-precious metals have a coat, and polishing will cause the metal under it to show through.

Arm yourself with a magnet and a magnifying glass when shopping for sterling silver jewelry. As a precious metal, silver should never be attracted to a magnet. Sterling silver always has some sort of stamp to indicate it is sterling. …