Understanding Your Sterling Silver Claddagh Ring.
It has been for almost half a decade that Kaisilver claddagh rings have dominated the world market for this historic jewel. The fine design, wide choice of gemstones and options for gold and sterling silver claddagh rings have ensured that Kaisilver the worlds top custom jewelry provider remains the leader in this market segment. It is important to understand the term 'sterling silver' when you buy a 925 silver claddagh ring or any other sterling silver jewelry. Silver that is used to produce jewelry cannot be 100% pure as pure silver lacks the hardness and durability required to produce jewelry that lasts. Jewelry manufacturers therefore combine metals into pure silver to produce a silver alloy that has sufficient hardness. The addition of other metals into silver obviously means that, the percentage of silver in the resulting metal is not 100%.
Internationally, it became important to stipulate the ideal proportions of silver and other metals that should be combined to produce silver jewelry. The metals mixed into silver are generally cheaper than silver, adding a large proportion of these other metals would therefore reduce the price per gram of the resulting metal alloy. But for jewelry buyers it would also mean that less precious metal is contained in the silver jewelry they wear. For this reason, it was agreed that the maximum proportion of metals added into silver would ideally be set at 7.5%. This would ensure that precious silver was at least 92.5% in the final metal alloy. If this was done, the silver could me called sterling silver. In the silver jewelry trade, the term is also sometimes referred to as 925 silver, 925 sterling silver or 92.5% silver. Get an idea of the variety and diversity of fine sterling silver jewelry at http://www.custom-jewelry-thailand.com/silver-jewelry-thailand-01.htm
Just before we end this brief write up we would like to mention something about silver tarnish. Silver tarnish is native to all silver, this is therefore not someting that is absent for sterling silver. Many buyers often buy 925 silver jewelry and feel that they have been cheated when the jewelry starts to tarnish. The Kaisilver jewelry and gem stone newsletter has a more thorough explanation on silver tarnish, you can access the report at http://www.newsletter.kaijewels.com/news010.htm