What is Silver?

Silver is a gray precious metal that is most commonly used for jewelry, table silver, art and industrial uses. Before the 18^th century, silver was as valuable as gold. The reason for it being as valuable as gold is it was once not found in many places. Once the discovery of so much silver in America, the price of silver fell quickly. As a precious metal silver has been used for making coins since 700 BC, ever heard of the British Pound Sterling? However since 2009, silver has became much more valuable, with prices rising even faster than gold.

Healing Properties

Silver increases the power of other healing stones that when they are combined they become even more powerful. Silver normalizes the bodily fluids and offsets hyperacidity. Silver also can be used to help with painful joints, headaches, and may have a calming effect on anxious people who want inner peace.

Supernatural properties

Just like gold is to the Sun, silver is to the Moon. This is of no surprise is because the moon appears silver. Water is also linked to the Moon (moon tides).

Silver is connected with intuition and psychic power, so a psychic reader may request the seeker to “Cross my palm with silver” to help energy flow.

In pop culture, silver is has been associated as a weapon to stop werewolves (Stephen King’s “Silver Bullet”, Underworld Series), witches (Brother’s Grimm) and to kill vampires (True Blood, Blade).

Zodiac Signs

Although linked with the moon, silver isn’t associated with any zodiac signs.

How to Clean Your Silver

All jewelry is subject to tarnish except maybe stainless steel (hence the word “stainless) and aluminum. The way to stop tarnishing is simply washing it with an old toothbrush, warm water and a nice soap. Other ways to really remove tarnish and give it a beautiful shine is to use Pro Polish Pad .The Pro Polish pad is used by professionals for cleaning jewelry. The pad can be used many times and is only $1. Please use our guide on how to properly clean your jewelry. How to Prevent Tarnishing On My Jewelry?

Hardness

The hardness scale is used for gemstones to measure how solid a stone is, and how well it can weather in certain elements and conditions. The hardness scale is 1 to 10, 1 (soapstone) being the softest and 10 being the hardest (diamonds). On hardness scale Silver it ranks at 2.5 to 3 making it very soft. However most commercial silver that you see is combined with other metals like copper and brass.

Where can you find silver jewelry?

We sell many sterling silver jewelry such as silver rings and silver necklaces as well as many silver plated items like silver plated necklaces and charms. To find out the exact material of each product, simply read the product description.

Additionally, silver can be found worldwide. It is especially common in Mexico, Thailand and Australia.