I find the following process really handy when needing to oxidise small amounts of silver:
1. Take your silver with the detail to be highlighted. Here I have taken a few silver tags on which I have stamped my logo.

2. Take an egg you have just hardboiled and while it is still warm, cut it in half and place in a container you can cover with a lid, along with your silver pieces:

3. Cover the container to prevent the egg's natural sulphur fumes from escaping:

4. Use silver polish or a silver polishing cloth to remove the surface oxidation, leaving the grooves coloured and highlighted. I like my tags at this stage, not too dark; they spent just 40 minutes in the egg container:

The tag seen in use: I enjoyed the hard-boiled egg!

7 comments:
I had heard about using an egg but never seen it explained !! great tip !! such fun to get a look behind the scenes ...and an appropriate topic for this Easter season...eggs !!
Thank you, Moonstone! Now, why didn't I make the connection with Easter eggs...!!
I had been told about this a few days ago and tried it on copper, I was amazed by the results. Especially because I am afraid of chemicals.
Those tags are cute, what a great idea! :-)
This sounds much better than nasty chemicals...I'll be having a go later. Thanks!
great,great tip!
i'll try it on copper
neki desu
I had heard about this but I was told that the egg needed to be smashed up and the metal put in amongst it which sort of precludes eating the egg afterwards!
Your way is much better! :)
Wow - amazing eco-friendly crafting!
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