Dark Metal Jewelry

I thought I would start this thread here even though I don't have any pictures right now. I was asking about a piece in the metalware forum.

I'm sure you've seen it before. Dark metal jewelry that doesn't obviously look like tarnished silver.

Do silver alloys tarnish? Is is a fairly popular look in jewelry that maybe it's not a silver product at all?

 

Sterling can "tarnish naturally" or a patina solution can be applied with various results..... https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=silver+patina+solutions#ip=1

 

By alloys are you referring specifically to lower than sterling? Of course, they do.

 

I'm pretty sure it would be. I've found a lot of it, and haven't experimented yet in polishing it. I think sterling would probably show itself as being silver. If you look at the "Dark Metal Menora" thread in Metalware, the color is pretty uniformly a shade of black.

 

There is jewelry that is dark gray called gunmetal gray.

 

There is also Japanning metal for various types of metal... https://aplanelife.us/blogs/f/japanning-103-traditional-japanning-the-black-hole-of-finishes

 

Any metal can be darkened and there are many different darkening techniques.