A couple of weeks ago I went to a yard sale and because it was fairly late in the morning it was well picked over. On one table was an old crusty box and inside were about 100 pieces of silverplated knives, forks and spoons. Only trouble was, they were all black with tarnish. It was obvious they had not seen the light of day in probably 30 or forty years. Almost against my better judgement I paid two whole whopping dollars for the entire box, took them home and started in with the polishing cream. It didn't take many before I decided to try out a method of removing tarnish I had never tried. It involves boiling water, adding baking soda and soaking. It wasn't perfect but at least it removed the top layer of tarnish and made it easier to get it off with Wright's Silver Cream. Let me just say this about Wright's: it is not the same formula I remember from years ago. While the newer formulation works really well, it doesn't work half as well as it used to.
Here you can see what a lot of it looked before, during the soaking method and then after being polished. Not bad, but a lot of work!
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