Cleaning silver

[Anna8888]

I have a large collection of mostly hideous silver - serving dishes c. 1930 (from grandparents' wedding), silver-lidded cut glass dressing table ornaments, vases and some quite nice fiddle-back Georgian cutlery.

I don't want to part with any of it but want to put it away clean in such a way that it doesn't tarnish. I'm in the process of cleaning it with silver dip but it seems not to get properly white - why might this be and what should I do?

I have bought plastic boxes and acid free tissue to wrap the cleaned objects. Anything else I need to do?

anna - silver dip is only usually any good for lightly tarnished objects - you need to use proper silver polish and rub at it a bit to get real tarnish off then buff with a cry soft cloth. I store my clutlery etc in soft duster cloths, but the acid free tissue paper sounds fine.

I was actually told off by the jeweller for using silver dip - apparently it leaves behind a residue on the silver which isn;t good for it.....

oops ...a Dry sofe cloth, not a cry one! DOH...

i can't spell...off back to my corner (sob)

Thanks .

Might dip it all first to get the worst of the tarnish off, and then have a go with silver polish. I hate the way the proper polish gets up one's nose.