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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 13149737, member: 2844&quot;]If the silver never left the presentation boxes, it should be fine and you don&#039;t have to worry about polishing it.</p><p>But if it is tarnished, my advise is to polish the silver, but don&#039;t overpolish it. It has to be close to what the maker intended, not a grey mass of dirty non-descript metal.</p><p>Besides, tarnish isn&#039;t good for silver. Don&#039;t worry, the age-related patina will still be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see in the link, Christie&#039;s only sell clean, polished silver:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collections-incluant-la-succession-de-francoise-lambert-vendue-au/lots/3993?page=1&amp;sortby=LotNumber&amp;themes=Orf%C3%A8vrerie" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collections-incluant-la-succession-de-francoise-lambert-vendue-au/lots/3993?page=1&amp;sortby=LotNumber&amp;themes=Orf%C3%A8vrerie" rel="nofollow">https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/collections-incluant-la-succession-de-francoise-lambert-vendue-au/lots/3993?page=1&amp;sortby=LotNumber&amp;themes=Orfèvrerie</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The other up-market auction houses require the same.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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