| When buying wholesale silver jewelries that you | | | | oxidize silver and then they are polished. This kind |
| will resell online, you may need to take at least a | | | | of finishing should not cost more than the regular |
| crash course on jewelry appraising or have | | | | high polished sterling silver. |
| someone with experience by your side to help | | | | Also to be considered when buying silver jewelries |
| you obtain the right quality of silver jewelries | | | | is the stone cutting. Many silver jewelries may |
| without being shortchanged. | | | | include stones as part of the jewelries' design. |
| There are quite a number of considerations that a | | | | Stones, whether natural or synthetic, may cost |
| retailer should learn when ascertaining the value of | | | | more or less depending on the stone cutting. For |
| silver jewelries. One of these has to do with | | | | example, stones in princess cut will cost more |
| finishing. Majority of sterling silver jewelries you will | | | | than round cut. However, the emerald cut or |
| find are plated since over time silver tends to turn | | | | baguette cut would cost more than the princess |
| yellow and plating it gives it a shield of protection. | | | | cut. |
| The material used for plating may greatly affect | | | | The manner of stone setting also dictates the |
| the final price of the jewelry. If the plating used is | | | | final cost of the silver jewelry. An inexpensive |
| rhodium which is a precious metal and much more | | | | way to set stones on silver is through wax |
| expensive than sterling silver, the value of the | | | | setting. Stones set in this manner are arranged on |
| jewelry will be much more expensive than those | | | | the mold prior to pouring of hot melted silver. The |
| that were plated in non-precious metals like nickel. | | | | whole piece including the stones is cast out from |
| Most Italian sterling silver is plated in nickel. | | | | the mold. This method of setting actually reduces |
| Many prefer rhodium because it makes the silver | | | | the quality of the stones due to the heated silver |
| very resistant to tarnishing. To reduce cost, many | | | | and the quality of setting is not consistent. |
| manufacturers would first give the silver a coating | | | | In contrast, hand-setting the stones produces |
| of copper before finally plating it in rhodium. | | | | better quality silver jewelries but then they are |
| However, silver with copper may turn green | | | | much more expensive because their production is |
| when worn by people with a skin type that may | | | | more labor intensive. |
| cause a reaction. Thus, it is good to ask your | | | | Lastly, the process by which the metal part of |
| supplier whether the jewelry you are about to | | | | the jewelry is produced largely determines the |
| buy is directly plated in rhodium or if it contains | | | | cost of the finished jewelry. Some silver jewelries |
| another metal other than rhodium and silver. | | | | are merely cut out from silver sheets which is |
| There are sterling silver jewelries that are not | | | | less expensive than the traditional way of casting |
| plated at all but instead they are polished in a | | | | silver on a mold. The latter is more costly |
| machine. The process of polishing silver does not | | | | because the silver metal after casting, still goes |
| entail any raw material cost and jewelries finished | | | | through a series of steps like polishing and filing |
| this way are sometimes less expensive than | | | | making its production more laborious and thus |
| plated ones. Those with an antique finish have | | | | more expensive. |
| been dipped in a chemical that has the ability to | | | | |