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Jewelry Storage Tips & Techniques

Protecting your Jewelry involves a number of factors, and two of the most important are Jewelry Storage and Jewelry Cleaning.

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Before you store it - Clean it. Because according to the Mohs Scale your jewelry is allergic to dust!

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Not ALL types of jewelry can be cleaned in the sonic jewelry cleaner.
Click here to find out what jewelry can and can't be used in the ultrasonic jewelry cleaner.

Traveling with Jewelry? There are purpose built jewelry storage organizers designed specially for traveling, called jewelry travel cases.

Back home, let's start with the queen of jewelry boxes - the Jewelry Armoire.

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Jewelry Armoires look superb, they're functional as well, and you will find one to compliment your existing furniture. And if space is not available, that's no problem either, just use the wall!

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Over the years, people have shared with me similar stories, namely that they have so much jewelry, and have it buried away in dozens of those small jewelry boxes or have locked it away in their safety deposit boxes or vaults.

Some collectors prefer fire safes and deposit boxes usually (interesting story further down) the safest places for safe-keeping estate and vintage antique jewelry.

When you invest in gold and diamond antique jewelry or invest in Georgian jewelry, which is one of the most popular styles to collect.

To keep your jewelry safe and secure and in the best possible condition, choose a home-safe, lock-box, your traditional handcrafted jewelry boxes jewelry organizer, jewelry armoire, the popular but non-traditional unique jewelry boxes or even your burglar-proof gun vault, with the same care as when you choose your estate and antique jewelry.

Convenience, fire and theft are good reasons why antique jewelry collectors often have a fire safe installed or use bank deposit boxes and document their possessions using a Home Inventory Software System.

Sometimes it's just more convenient, especially if you run a jewelry business and need to photograph your jewelry regularly, to use a jewelry storage box, in the home rather than a safe-deposit box at the bank and that's why its even more important to take a little time out and list your valuables.

Even the bank safe-deposit box though isn't always, well, Safe! In 2003 occurred the world's largest safe-deposit box theft. Thieves in Antwerp opened 123 boxes, and carried away $100 million worth of diamonds, gold and jewelry. Click here to read the full story.

Some collectors actually "hide" their "good bits". If you're one of those people, that have given-up on jewelry storage solutions, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.

Many people hide jewelry and then forget where they put them. Yes, it does happen. Over the years it may fade from memory and should it happen they ever pass away, those pieces may never be seen again.

Some people tell a trusted relative where they have hidden their jewelry. One of the best ways to safeguard yourself and your heirs from a disaster, such as this happening to you, is to organize now your personal record and vital information with Home Inventory Software.

Home Inventory Software is an easy to use software solution that provides a way for you to document your possessions, including your jewelry, in any event, from the total loss of the items, due to Theft, Fire, Flooding or Natural Disaster.

Inside the Box - Jewelry Storage Tips

There is a right way and a wrong way to store Antique Jewelry. Your personal jewelry storage requirements are contingent with the type of jewelry you own and the size of your jewelry collection. The jewelry storage tips that follow will help you to know the most appropriate way to store your jewelry inside the jewelry box.

Earrings:

Never place your antique diamond earrings loose on a jewelry storage tray.

Only diamond can scratch other diamonds and this method of storage facilitates this.

Earrings should be stored on an individual earring pad that allows separate face up storage for each earring with the friction or screw back attached.

Pendants:

Disarranged, tangled and knotted chains during storage can damage your jewelry. It can also be very frustrating trying to untangle when you have an appointment.

Wooden jewelry boxes that have pendant hooks built into the inner lid or a side panel will allow you to store the chains in the hanging position and secure the pendant itself snugly inside a shirred pouch.

Watches:

Many jewelry boxes feature watch forms that allow you to store watches on a round form with the clasp secured and face up just like you wear it on your wrist.

You might also like to take a look at the handcrafted jewelry boxes from Agresti, they are superb, this company even make their own Agresti watch safe.

Bracelets:

Best stored on a pillow inset in your jewelry box. The pillow provides gentle support in its own special compartment to keep the bracelet from colliding against other jewelry.

Gemstones Jewelry:

Some gemstones are quite soft and easily damaged by hard gemstones like diamonds. It's not just a cunning example of De beers marketing strategy, it's a diamond fact, a diamond is forever! Opals, coral, Persian turquoise, especially old opal jewelry, and expensive moonstone jewelry should be separated within their own pouch compartments; these softer stones should be stored separately, away from a girls' best friend.

The hydrous nature of soft gemstones like moonstone, coral, opals, and the turquoise that you see in antique native American turquoise jewelry makes them vulnerable to scratches, sharp blows, hot water and household chemicals.

Water and light can even change the color of turquoise and its' skin can easily, absorb body oils.

Emerald rings, Antique Diamond engagement rings and sapphire rings should be stored upright in a ring tray and Emeralds should not be in constant contact with any cloth or absorbent surface.

Although diamonds are the hardest of the gemstones, both old and new diamonds can be brittle and if a diamond is hit on a cleavage point, it can chip.

Never allow your diamond jewelry to be stored loose or come into contact with other gemstones, as it will scratch them.

Pearls:

Strands of cultured pearls should not be stored hanging, but should be stored so that these little pearls do not come into contact with each other.

Hanging strands of pearls also weakens the silk due to the force of gravity.

Store pearls flat, and if you have multiple strands of pearls, store in separate jewelry trays or with a padded liner between them, if you stack the strands.

Cultured pearls and natural pearls are organic gemstones and unless you're an oyster you can't repair a pearl, therefore knowing information on how to care for your pearls is vital.

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