The feature of silverware
If silverware leaves it by not carrying out suitable processing, it will become blacker and blacker. It is not oxidization (rust) but sulfuration that silver becomes blackish. It reacts with the hydrogen sulfide in air, or the sulfur dioxide in moisture, and sulfuration silver arises on the surface. Since it does not become brake like iron oxidization in inside in silver sulfuration, it will be released even if for hundreds of years, and if even the silver discolored deep-black however is taken care of correctly, it will return to the original state.

銀製品の特徴

銀製品は、適切な処理をせず放置しておくとだんだん黒くなっていきます。銀が黒ずむのは、酸化(サビ)ではなく硫化です。空気中の硫化水素や水分中の二酸化硫黄と反応して、表面に硫化銀が生じるのです。銀の硫化の場合、鉄の酸化のように中までボロボロになってしまうことはありませんから、たとえ何百年も放っておかれて、どんなに真っ黒に変色してしまった銀でも、正しく手入れすれば元の状態に戻ります。

 

The care method of silverware
Please polish using the medicine marketed not as dropping [ rust ] but as "a silver polish." There are the shape of the shape of a liquid and paste, a duster (that into which medicine has infiltrated cloth), etc., and if it asks with "a silver polish" in a department store or a jeweller, it can purchase easily.

銀製品のお手入れ方法

サビ落としではなく、「銀磨き」として市販されている薬剤を使用して磨いてください。液体状、ペースト状、ダスター(布に薬品が染み込ませてあるもの)などがあり、デパートや宝飾店で「銀磨き」とお尋ねくだされば、簡単に購入できます。

 

It can purchase to care of oxidized silver.
Oxidized silver finish has the black portion which is the accessories of the silver which has unevenness in a design etc., and was dented, and is a certain thing of the more nearly three-dimensional visual-angle effect. After that, carry out a sulfuration reaction in manufacture process, and the whole is made to discolor black purposely, and it grinds with a buff or silver polish cloth, and gloss is taken out, and while it has been black, it leaves the indented portion. It is made what was made into a blunt optical condition overall purposely. the black of a portion which oxidized silver polished only the convex portion and was dented -- finishing -- be careful not to drop if it has a duster in a hand and it is polished, since it can polish until deeply with it being unexpected also with thinking that it treated with discretion, if a duster is opened and put on even fields, such as a table, and it has the accessories in a hand and is made to rub, the indented portion will remain without being polished Liquid-like medicine should not be used for oxidized silver. Let's stop in the good state in a duster of being a prohibited thing polishing also too much.

いぶし銀のお手入れ
いぶし銀仕上げとは、デザインに凹凸のある銀のアクセサリー等で、凹んだ部分が黒く、より立体的な視角効果のあるもののことです。製作過程で硫化反応させて全体をわざと黒く変色させ、その後、バフや銀磨き布で研磨して光沢を出し、凹んだ部分は黒いまま残しておくのです。全体的にわざと鈍い光り具合にしたものにします。いぶし銀は凸部分だけ磨き、凹んだ部分の黒ずみを落とさないように注意してください。ダスターを手に持って磨くと、手加減したつもりでも意外と深くまで磨けてしまうので、テーブルなどの平らな面にダスターを広げて置き、アクセサリーの方を手に持って擦りつけるようにすると、凹んだ部分は磨かれずに残ります。いぶし銀は、液体状の薬品を使用しないでください。ダスターでの磨き過ぎも禁物で、お好みの風合いで止めておきましょう。