When buying beads and findings on ebay, you may find that many will list their items as sterling silver, however be aware that if items are listed as "Bali Sterling Silver" or "Tibetan Sterling Silver" these...
The purpose of my guide is to warn buyers about cheap Chinese metal beads which many bead sellers choose to describe as Tibetan Silver. Also to make it clear to these sellers that they are actually breaking...
There are thousands of listings daily in the "beads" section, some are fantastic value for money, others are simply NOT! If you like to make your own jewellery items or are thinking of taking this up as a new...
Beware of items being sold from China that are supposedly rare and ancient artifacts as 99.99% of these are actually very cheap, low quality reproductions. When i first started buying and selling in Ebay...
Buying Sterling Silver and the new Hallmark Act What is pure silver? A soft white precious metal with a 999 parts per 1000, 99.9% silver and 0.1% unclassified impurity. What is silver? By legal definition,...
You may observe on ebay and other places items described at been White Metal or Sterling Siver.Both look like silver What is the diffrence? Sterling Silver: Well to be named Sterling Silver any item must reach...
Having purchased some Tibetan silver jewlery recently the following has come to light. An investigation by a UK assay office shows the base material to have 12.4% nickel content under a thin plate of silver....
Many sellers use the word silver to describe the items they are selling, but what do the actually mean? Well, that really does depend on the context in which it is used. Sterling Silver: Sterling Silver...
There are a number of types of "silver" beads, components and findings for sale on eBay, so I hope this short guide will give you some useful background information."Types" of Silver Fine silver is actually...
As you will see I sell Burmese opium weights in auctions and through my shop http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Naga-Store quite regularly. Many buyers I suspect could do with more information on the history of the...