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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4872142, member: 110504"]Thanks lots, [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER]. ...The bad news is that those are both good enough to get cleaned.</p><p>And I feel your pain about cleaning. Hope you can find someone who knows what they're doing, for both of them. ...And not for crazy money. For the Aphilas one, the prospect is reminiscent (hyperbole alert: ) of restoring the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." Very best of luck. ...If I owned them, I'd pretty emphatically want it done, just by someone who knew what they were about (present company contemptuously included :<} ).</p><p>...The one time I ever undertook to do anything along those lines was when I got a similar lump of dirt, along with a decent later-4th-c. anonymous AE. On someone's advice, I soaked it in vinegar. And it was Total beginner's luck. It came out as another example, Munro-Hay Type 52, with no patina to speak of; kind of a matte red color. But as such, it was <i>easily </i>VF+. (That's another one I Wish I could find pictures of.) --But No, in your cases, I'd be saying to myself: "Kids, Dont Try This at Home!"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4872142, member: 110504"]Thanks lots, [USER=98035]@Finn235[/USER]. ...The bad news is that those are both good enough to get cleaned. And I feel your pain about cleaning. Hope you can find someone who knows what they're doing, for both of them. ...And not for crazy money. For the Aphilas one, the prospect is reminiscent (hyperbole alert: ) of restoring the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt's "The Night Watch." Very best of luck. ...If I owned them, I'd pretty emphatically want it done, just by someone who knew what they were about (present company contemptuously included :<} ). ...The one time I ever undertook to do anything along those lines was when I got a similar lump of dirt, along with a decent later-4th-c. anonymous AE. On someone's advice, I soaked it in vinegar. And it was Total beginner's luck. It came out as another example, Munro-Hay Type 52, with no patina to speak of; kind of a matte red color. But as such, it was [I]easily [/I]VF+. (That's another one I Wish I could find pictures of.) --But No, in your cases, I'd be saying to myself: "Kids, Dont Try This at Home!"[/QUOTE]
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