Let's remove some verdigris, shall we?

No wonder you wear a funny hat.

 

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It is, after all, ok to clean ancients. Or so I'm told.

 

Gahh, I'm itching just thinking about the dessicated skin that would result. And how did you keep from going under from the fumes?

 

Now, that's a serious collector....sacrificing body for coin.

LMAO!

The verdigris is primarily light, I think you'll get most of it.

 

Rose thorn.

 

In Philadelphia, in February? A lab-grown rose would cost me as much as the coin did, and then I'd have to find someone to give the rose to.

 

The soaker, by the way:



The glass ($0.89 at Walmart) has a neat curved bottom on which the coin cannot lay flat. It's covered by what was intended to be a 4x6 photo frame cover - I use them because most have finished edges for safer handling. That glass-on-glass makes a near-airtight seal on the container as long as it's sufficiently flat (a coating of synthetic grease around the lip of the glass would make that even more certain), and I don't expect this to evaporate enough to be of concern before it gets changed tomorrow.

 

Not the whole rose...just a thorn...don't you know of any rose thorn stores. BTW, a sharpened bamboo shishkabob sticker will work as well.

 

As of yet, I've found nothing but a thorn which is capable of being sharp enough to reach between denticles for more than one usage. I'm expecting this is verdigris, and counting on the Verdi-Care to help me not have to go into every nook and cranny with a tool.

 

Good system. I do something almost like this but with smaller glassware.

 

Resulting in this?

 

No, just go to any flower shop and ask for a trimmed few stems. Tell them what you're after, they'll give them to you. They throw them away!

 

You want an insight into how my mind works?

I never even thought of that.

 

Use hawthorn thorns from a tree rather than .. it has thousands of them free for the taking. They are from 1" to 3" long, extremely sharp and extremely hard... mush harder and much more durable than locust thorns. They can even be sharpened when they get dull. One thorn lasts a year of you take care of it. There is nothing better than hawthorns thorns .. you just have to find a tree in the woods or someone's yard.

 

Just don't smoke while doing it

Oh, and I'm sure there are pluses to developing ketoacidosis.

 

Interesting. Thank you, Bill; those are deliberately planted around my city in vacant lots to spruce things up and stabilize the land, and quite common here.

 

The material safety data sheet reveals a substance not as benign as you would have us believe.

 

Artificial rose thorn = sharpened round toothpick.

Oh, will someone please PM me when the acetone soak is done in a few days or weeks so I can pull up this thread?

BTW, NCS would need a bigger lab, safe, and fume hood if they used this method to remove those spots. Their turnaround time would also increase to several months.