Today I spent a few hours in a local flea market. I found a few things that peaked my interest so I brought them home. The ashtray I thought was kinda cool but I don't smoke. How would you clean it and treat the verdigris? Please feel free to post your flea market finds.
I don't recall ever going to a flea market before,not sure if their around my area and those are some neat items!!!.
The "Gentleman's" tokens are likely to be modern reproductions/fantasy pieces. Lots of fake material out there from that genre
They were negotiated for as such (a dollar a piece tax included) with the guy making me promise if they were worth more that I give him a bigger cut. I did a little research online for history and they are replicate of others, if the ones I came across were actually originals. I've never actually used one so am soliciting more expert opinions.
I doubt it would do a whole lot about verdigris. Isn't acetone better for things like PVC residue vs inert substances like most verdigris?
I use it all the time on my finds its a medal cleaner...i would also use olive oil or Verdi care since Wizard has it back in stock
I don't have my scope, am in a hotel, and when I look too close I get cross eyed, or scatter eyed, or scatter brained, or both, or all three. In a loop, it looks like dirt.
I would put the ashtray in a reloading brass tumbler. Not that I ever cleaned coins in one. Yes, I have thought about it but never did. I'm sure that would do a great job. If you know anyone who reloads, ask them to do it for you.
You seem to do better than I did at a Flea Market. The one guy said that the coins he had were not for a numismatic just if someone wants something. I bought some foreign coins for $5 and they were only worth a few cents. They had wheat pennies in a plastic cover for much more than they are worth.
There was that too. One guy had a cigar box full of wheat cents for 50 cents each. If I could have taken the afternoon and searched through each one with a loop, I could have possibly found one worth that. Then there was another that had some polished to death buffalo nickels for $10 each. No one there was specializing in coins. I bought the ashtray from a lady who had many different types of ashtrays and said her mom and dad both smoked and had passed on leaving her the remnants. The 3 tokens came from a guy who had a eclectic collection of things including a pocket knife collection and the tokens were in his pocket knife case, I almost bought a knife too, but settled for just the tokens. I bought the '37 cent from a guy selling sports cards, thousands upon thousands of sports cards and a great deal of fishing tackle. I don't do the cards, did the card thing as a kid but only because all the other kids were. I really just got them for the bubble gum. I carried the cards around in my back pocket and sweating, swimming in creeks, and other general adventures turned most all of my collection into what appeared as a huge spitball. I also bought a new fishing hat from this guy. The 2- '56 cents came from a guy selling antique tools that he said that he got most from estate sales and had bought a box that had those and many more in it. The tool guy was beside a guy selling new outdoor cooking equipment and I probably wouldn't have even stopped there if it hadn't been for that. The cooking equipment guy had a couple of things that I want at reasonable prices but I don't really have a place to store them until I am headed home I also left with a huge bag of roasted in the shell peanuts that the house keeping staff here may boot me out for getting the hulls in the carpet.