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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9576496, member: 5398&quot;]I decided to start a new thread on my problems testing silver (will add a link to the other thread since I said I&#039;d post photos after I found a white tile).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since I had difficulty seeing the color of the silver scrape on my black testing stone, [USER=1496]@Hollyblue[/USER] suggested I use a white unglazed tile with my new silver testing acid. The closest thing I could find is a bisque trinket box (I also found a free matte glazed floor tile, but the surface was too rough).</p><p><br /></p><p>So I tried testing two necklaces that I bought several years ago at thrift stores to determine if they&#039;re silver. I found a necklace online similar to the first one that was marked 800, but my necklace isn&#039;t marked.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461302[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]461303[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second necklace isn&#039;t marked either, but looks like an older Navajo necklace. The end cones definitely are not silver, but the beads seem to be silver, so I&#039;m wondering if maybe it was restrung (it&#039;s strung on a fine chain).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461304[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461312[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the test results--it appears they&#039;re silver--the colors look like dark red (.925), or are they brown(.800)? I looked at them from the side also, but couldn&#039;t see a difference.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461313[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Below are a pair of silver earrings that aren&#039;t marked, just have a &quot;VB&quot; signature different than Volmer Bahner&#039;s Denmark signature--I found a pair like them on Etsy attributed to Bahner, but there seems to be other Danish jewelers that use a VB signature, and most Bahner jewelry is enameled, so probably not his???</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461318[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the test results with a piece of sterling on the left from a jewelry-making class I took decades ago, and a faux-silver piece on the right. I&#039;m wondering why the acid on the left lost its yellow/orange color.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461319[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my old and new bottles of silver test acid--I used the new bottle.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]461320[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m thinking I&#039;ll probably test silver jewelry with the new silver acid until it goes bad, and then use my old 18k acid which still seems to work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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