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Posted 8 years ago
Hel1
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This is a thrift store find from last week. Between all the silver plated items I found this Dutch silver tea strainer. Marked with HH in rectangle for Herman Hooijkaas, year letter G = 1916 en the lion.
The patina is so dark that you can not recognize it as a silver tea strainer.
What do you think, leave it this way or clean/polish this tea strainer?
Update: I added a photo after cleaning. What a difference!
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Gee, these are hardly ever silver. Lucky you! The green is verdigris and it will eventually destroy the metal, so better to clean it.
Clean it.
I like its natural state.
I have my great grandmothers hand held mirror all in silver, it's very dark so what I did was used a small paint brush with silver polish and put it on the high relief areas and rubbed it off that way. It left a lot of the darkness on there but...I guess it's hard to explain. I'll post it soon. Mine did not have any corrosion so I wasn't worried about that but I just wanted to brighten it up a bit. I love this strainer.
I cleaned the tea strainer and added a photo. Quite a difference.
Thanks Efesgirl, vetraio50, SpiritBear and shareurpassion for your advice.
Thanks everyone for the love!
The detail is gorgeous !~