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Sould I get my lamp polished?
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| 3/16/2011
| Oshkalaboomboom
Posted on 03/16/2011 9:49:32 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: mupcat
Yes, very true. A natural patina can take years to decades to develop.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:01:30 AM PDT
by
MsLady
(Be the kind of woman that when you get up in the morning, the devil says, "Oh crap, she's UP !!")
To: JennysCool
I believe you can polish your own lamp. Or, if you can convince someone else to polish your lamp for no charge, that’s okay too. But most states have laws against paying someone else to polish your lamp.
Lamp polishing: The oldest profession.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:03:35 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Allah sucks pig teat.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Only take it to a reputable antique restorer.
Don’t touch it, it’s beautiful.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:04:36 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(Marty 60)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I think the patina looks nice. Don’t know if old lamps are like old furniture, but the value of old furniture is greatly diminished if someone refinishes the piece, even if the work is well done. I guess the old authentic lacquers and the accumulation of natural metal oxidation is part of what makes an antique a real antique.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:04:47 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Listen carefully:
DO NOT POLISH THE BRASS!!
You will lose a good 40% of the value if you do.
The only cleaning you want to perform on a piece like that is using warm water on the glass to get dust off. That is it, nothing more!
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:05:06 AM PDT
by
JerseyHighlander
(p.s. NH was a Mass. dependency until 1680)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
If you care about value NO.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:05:16 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:06:09 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
The lamp is fine as it is. And when you are gone, you do not want your heirs bemoaning your stupidity in diminishing its value by cleaning and polishing it.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Watch any episode of
Antiques Road Show and the first lesson is NEVER POLISH OUT THE PATINA OF AN ANTIQUE!
Unless you want to turn a $1,000 lamp into a nice shiney $50 lamp.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:09:51 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
NO! That patina is half the value in an old piece like that.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:11:10 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(What's your zombie plan?)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:13:38 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Is that what they’re calling it now? ;-P
Seriously - DO NOT polish it. It ruins a lot of the value of the lamp.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:14:04 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(What disease did cured ham used to have?)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Should I get my lamp polished?Hey, this is a conservative website. Take that trash-talk over to DU.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:14:29 AM PDT
by
Yankee
(Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Nice lamp. Just give it a light dusting now and then.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:15:10 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
1. It looks exactly like the designers meant it to look. Victorain designers knew what they were doing in design and they knew their materials.
2. The patina that you have on it now is a function of both time and perhaps fifty years of existing in air that was heavily fouled by particulates and various other corrosive chemicals. Don’t mess with it.
3. It is quite beautiful.
To: Allegra
So you do this as a hobby or........:o)
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:19:19 AM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Evidently you don't watch Pawn Stars or Antique Road Show. On both of them people bring in things that they have “cleaned up” and the value went down to about one fourth of the value if they had let the old Patina alone.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:19:39 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I think if you brought into the the Pawn Stars shop (History Ch TV show) all polished up - they would tell you you just destroyed it's collective value.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Once you polish it, you will have to keep polishing it, and for what? It looks nice as is.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:20:07 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: Oshkalaboomboom
P.S., I believe it is a Salem Brothers lamp, not Sale Brothers.
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posted on
03/16/2011 10:22:59 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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