So I found this recipe on how to polish silver that seemed simple and gentle and decided to give it a try...mostly because I had nothing better to do and out of curiosity, not that I plans to do it with my old pieces!
Pretty basic stuff. Water and soda.
I decided to try it on my silver 6 pence from Australia, first because it looked like total shit. And second because I think it doesn't have much value anyways. To save on the soda I just used a plastic cap from a milk bottle:
So here are the results after just one bath
Before
After
Before
After
Not bad! Unfortunately the red cum stain seemed unaffected...if you have any ideas about it let me know!