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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 12866048, member: 4654&quot;]From what I can see all that&#039;s damaged is the finish, it&#039;s very unlikely to be the coromandel that&#039;s damaged because that&#039;s ebony and water doesn&#039;t really do anything to ebony. There are 2 reasons why this could have happened 1) water and 2) the polish just got old both are very easy fixes for a restorer or if you want to do it a home you will need to be careful, it&#039;s a stunning slope, the brass is just top notch, the wood is the best you can get and no longer available to anyone and the porcelain probably done by Worcester. With all that aside, if you are going to do this at home you will need some 0000 steel wool, french polish, 2000 wet and dry sandpaper and a very careful hand, first very likely go over just the affected area with the sandpaper just to get the raised polish off (I do mean very lightly) then you will need to match the polish, this would have been highly french polished so all the grain was filled, you don&#039;t want to disturb that, buy a small brush with very fine bristles, every coat of french polish you apply wants to be the thinnest you can do, the first coat will melt the polish near the wood and the cloudiness will disappear, keep applying very thin coats until the polish is of equal height to the surrounding area or slightly above then using the 2000 wet and dry very carefully flatten, then 1 more very thin coat of french polish. You will use the steel wool to take the shine off the new polish BTW you need to let each coat dry and it needs to be well dry before the steel wool, after that just a coat of beeswax polish on all the outside and your done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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