Speaking Of Silver Pens, How Often Do You Polish Yours?

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My YOL Grand Victorian has developed a very nice patina so far and I am thinking about leaving it that way instead of restoring it to full luster with the included polishing cloth. What do you do with yours? Just curious thanks,

 

Post Script

[PAKMAN]

Oddly I was just thinking that yesterday myself. I noticed several of my sterling pens in the pen case were getting a nice patina including the YOL GV. In the past I would polish it up when I got ready to use it but this time I am thinking of leaving it as is.

[Cordovian]

All I'll say is I carry a pack of polishing cloths with me every day. Borderline OCD...

[jar]

When it starts turning caramel brown and I get the urge.

[cellmatrix]

you hardly need to polish it at all if you use it every day. It only tarnishes with disuse.

Edited October 22, 2014 by cellmatrix

[Bo Bo Olson]

I like my gray silver P-75....and a few others, in I don't like a chrome looking silver pen.

But others do.

I'd thought once to just lightly polish tat P-75, but stopped with only a little done, in I'd also gotten the dark lines of the checks. The pen darkened back up, so the pen gets polished by use, now.

Edited October 22, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

[sexauerw]

When it gets so dark that it's hard to make out the engraved pattern. Then I use a polishing cloth and make sure that I stop before the dark engraving starts to get light.

[Moshe ben David]

I don't polish my sterling silver pens nor my sterling silver cufflinks. Picked up the habit of allowing the tarnish after reading how some in Japan liked the patina and decided to give it a try. I found I liked it also.