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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;silverthwait, post: 28877, member: 103&quot;]Welcome, Vern, but cool it!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is a &quot;<i>forum,&quot; </i>a gathering of people who discuss various objects and methods of dealing with them.&nbsp; Given Spring&#039;s field of expertise, &quot;coming out with guns blazing,&quot; was extraordinarily apt, but...actually, he wasn&#039;t.&nbsp; Blazing, I mean.&nbsp; He was expressing his opinion and/or his preference.</p><p><br /></p><p>The quote from the Roadshow gentleman was excellent.&nbsp; The subject of the surface of whatever your widget is, can often bring up different opinions from people who are &quot;experts&quot; in the same field.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the non-experts, one gets comments about the &quot;patina&quot; on silverware...which is hogwash.&nbsp; The Keno brothers rhapsodize about a card table from 1730, with scratches and dents and white marks and bruises.&nbsp; And rightfully so.&nbsp; But it goes in a museum, not Mrs. Smith&#039;s pretty living room.&nbsp; A copy of the same piece, however -- the one made in 1940, can be re-surfaced without guilt.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of one&#039;s decisions about such matters can be addressed by considering the purpose of the widget, the original intent by the creator, and the present use (or non-use) of that widget.</p><p><br /></p><p>One assumes that the architects who commissioned copper roofs for their buildings, knew darn well that they would eventually turn sort of Nile green.&nbsp; On the other hand, the masters who made those wonderful copper pots one sees in English country house kitchens, wanted them kept polished.&nbsp; Not only for the look, but because chewing on bits of verdigris in the stew is not recommended.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the numerous people who try to sell unpolished silver, tarnish is NOT patina.&nbsp; Anything having to do with food or drink needs to be CLEAN.&nbsp; If it&#039;s a sterling statue of Diana the Huntress -- it&#039;s owner&#039;s choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the case of your wheel, I, personally, think getting back to the designer&#039;s intent was the right way to go, because it is the kind of thing one wants to know what it is actually supposed to look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, while I quite see why Spring and the Keno brothers think as they do, restoration and conservation need to be considered as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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