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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GoodEyeGifts, post: 213291, member: 4076&quot;]By the way, here is a photo of the chafing dishes I salvaged from the thrift store. First thing you&#039;ll notice are that they are copper. Well, because they were almost exclusively copper, I thought they were originally produced as copper pieces. I set about to clean them (they were dreadful--they even had leftover 100 year-old tape inside the lids) and as I cleaned the black spots, silver emerged. I panicked at first...thinking that I had removed the copperplate and exposed the base metal. Then after inspecting the item more closely, I realized that the black marks were tarnished silverplate and that I had merely polished the original finish. Looks like the previous owners removed the original finish--which was silverplate--a long time ago. I know that the removal of the original silverplate could be construed as a tragic ending. But truth be told, the brilliant copper that has emerged is gloriously warm and beautiful-almost like a phoenix emerging from the ashes.[ATTACH=full]62624[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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