Hi All,

I’m wondering how you guys clean your silver snuffboxes.   I’m surprised at how firmly a scent can embed itself in the silver!  Three snuffs later and my Ari D still smells of F&T Bordeaux.  Do I dare use soap/water on occasion?  Or just rubbing alcohol and some q-tips?  I don’t want to damage my antique boxes, and I’m loath to ruin a new one.

Thanks,

-Dave

I don’t have silver boxes just the mr snuff and snuffhouse plastic ones, but just to give some info I clean them with toothpicks and q-tips once a week and with soapy water every so often. Just make sure you rinse well and let air dry completely, I wouldn’t thin that it would hurt silver to be washed every so often.

Pack the box with baking soda and let it sit a few days this should absorb any scent. If that doesn’t work try activated charcoal. 

cleaning it with soap and water will also remove the salty fingerprints that can cause it to tarnish. Solid sterling is tough stuff; actually you could boil it with a few drops of Mister Clean without hurting it. I wouldn’t do that to silver plated on brass though.

Thanks for the replies!  I’ll pick up some baking soda tonight, and it’s comforting to hear the boxes can put up with some heavier cleaning than I’ve been willing to inflict so far.

I’ll try to borrow a camera in the coming days so I can show off my three beauties.  (But of course not the three non-snuffboxes I carelessly fell for on Etsy/eBay.  Bah, live and learn.)