Cleaning Tiffany's silver

[PeaceLoveAndCandy]

Hi everyone. I have a few Tiffany's silver items: necklaces, rings and bangles. They're very old and dirty. What would be the best way to get them cleaned up at home?

I know you say at hone but can you get to a Tiffany store at all? They will clean them for free and post them back to you.

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My local jeweller tackled my early-2000s Tiffany silver jewellery a few years back and it didn't come up very clean. I'd love to be able to wear it again.

I would clean it the same way as I would any other sterling silver. Warm water and fairy liquid and a soft toothbrush, rinse and pat dry then finish with a silver cloth.

I cleaned my Tiffany silver up with a combination of tin foil, bicarb & warm water. A chemical reaction between the foil & the bicarb lifts the tarnish, google it, it's very easy to do.

Surely it's the same as all silver?
What I do is to put some tin foil in a bowl (shiny side up IIRC), place your jewellery on the top,boiling water and add a tea spoon of baking soda. It will bubble away. Leave your jewellery literally a few seconds and it should come back as good as new.
Use a prong to remove the jewellery because it then hot!

MarcelineMissouri, no, really can't be bothered with that at all! Too lazy! And also for the cost of the train ticket I am sure there's a suitable cleaner out there that will do the job just fine? muststopdrinking I have used that technique in the past and I find the results just okay and a bit of a faff.

I clean silver cutlery with the bicarb and soda method, and I've used coca cola to clean cheap silver jewellery before.

But I once read on here a poster that bought a broken Tiffany's pen, she took it to Tiffany's to ask about a repair and they serviced, repaired and cleaned it for free!

I'd definitely contact Tiffany's and ask what they can do.

Sounds silly @PeaceLoveAndCandy - have you tried a good quality silver cloth? If you grab one and stick the tv on it’s quite therapeutic and the good quality ones should get the tarnish off. Rinse and dry with washing up liquid in water and a toothbrush first. Ex jewellery shop staff (loved that job!) and this used to be a favourite customer request as it used to allow you to totally focus - a bit like mindfulness I guess!

When I do the bicarb thing, after it's soaked a while, I scrunch some of the used foil and rub the silver, massively improved the results.

Jeweller here. Please, please, please don't use the tinfoil / bicarb method. Yes, it will strip off the tarnish but it's a strong chemical reaction that will, after a couple of goes, leave your silver porous and therefore prone to tarnishing more, and faster. It will also strip off any rhodium plating on the pieces, which a lot of commercially produced silver has to keep that bright white look to it.

The advice given by PP re: returning to Tiffany is good - they are a premium brand and should happily do this for you, no matter how old the jewellery. If not, a local jeweller should be able to clean and de-gunk in an ultrasonic and then re-buff.

If you must clean it yourself, soak it in warm water for an hour that has a drop of washing up liquid in it. Scrub it gently with a soft baby toothbrush, rinse and repeat if needed. A bit of elbow grease with a silver polishing cloth should bring it back to being bright and shiny, and remove any remaining tarnish. As a last resort, silver dip (Town Talk is a good brand) can be used briefly. It will still strip silver in the same way as the foil/bicarb method but is less harsh. Dip for 5 seconds, brush and then rinse immediately and polish up. Don't ever let jewellery sit in the dip and always rinse it thoroughly. Don't use the dip for any pieces that have stones set in them or charms with enamelling, etc.

I clean my Tiffany jewellery with a silver cloth, it work great.

Goddards Long Term Silver Polish Cloth www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000TAW7P2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_Y9GPYYAF1BK5KMN6MNPE?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Don't use the bicarb method - it wrecked a pandora ring I tried to clean.

Goddard's silver dip, and also their cloth, as mentioned above.

Tiffany sell a cleaning kit. I used this on the necklace I got and it worked a treat.