I’ll try that first and then the ammonia. Also, this bowl is 8 inches across! You’d be eating a hell of a lot of ice cream!!
Righto. I'll see if I can get my hands on some of it.
What effect will the ammonia have, pardon my ignorance...?
Thanks! As you can see from the photos in my previous posting, there's still some niggling areas which need cleaning. I'm not sure how the hell to...
This is about as good as the polishing is going to get, for the time-being... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Compare with previous... [ATTACH]...
I normally don't use Brasso, but the stuff I usually use was not yielding any sort of results on the really hard to clean areas.
I used Brasso to give the bowl its final clean-up and shine. It's looking pretty good now!
I love it, but it's proving tricky to clean. Especially those wavy decorations. How the hell do you get in there to rub out the tarnish!?...
Beautiful!!
Ornate desk sets, inkstands and other accessories like this were very common in the Victorian era. The vast majority which I've seen were made of...
It's pretty, but I don't see more than a passing resemblance to Peranakan porcelain. In my experience, that was generally much more flamboyant.
Pardon my ignorance but in what way is this used with a chicken?
I've met loads of people who get into foaming attacks if you suggest that they were to polish antique brass. I hesitate to remind these people...
I see no damage to the edge of the lid, or rim. Pry-marks, scratching, etc. I would suggest that it perhaps fell (or was dropped or pushed) from...
I agree. They're really cute, but they're not ivory.
I would imagine it'd be around that era, yes. Late 1800s-early 1900s. Probably sometime between about 1880-1910.
I'd say early 20th century. Black ink, red ink, and perhaps water, or a brush in the middle, for cleaning the pen-points. And up the back,...
I've only scrapped silver maybe once in my life. I had a whole heap of useless silver lying around which I knew nobody was ever going to buy. So I...
I suspect that those slats or planks on the base are not original. Those semi-circular cutouts might hold maps, blueprints etc, nautical charts...
In that case I'll just toss it out then.
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