The idea of beautiful jewelry can be as exquisite as the actual jewelry pieces themselves. Jewelry not only reminds us of our important relationships, it also helps memorialize those special occasions. Expanding your knowledge about jewelry can make the buying and selling experience become more rewarding.

Be careful on how you store all of your jewelry together. You can protect your jeweled investments with hooks, boxes and holders that keep each piece intact and prevent tangles. Avoid just throwing them into a box in an unorganized manner. Not only can this harm the fine and fragile pieces, but things like necklaces can get severely tangled up with other necklaces or other jewelry.

Arm yourself with a magnet and a magnifying glass when shopping for sterling silver jewelry. As a precious metal, silver should never be attracted to a magnet. You can recognize sterling silver by stamps that say ‘.925’ or