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How do I restore vintage glass ornaments?
I recently received my grandmother's Christmas-Decorations 1940/50s. They glass, with bright metallic finishes and a large part of the final is worn, marked, or dull. Is there a way to solve this problem, or a particular kind of paint I could use to enliven? In addition, they are not particularly useful or collection, just sentimental value.
Only inside-examine the process of silvering commonly used in the demonstrations of chemistry with a bottle of coke. it is a sugar silver nitrate solution, and something else can not remember offhand. google glass bottle of silver nitrate. It is a process Simple but super expensive. The last time I knew, the silver nitrate has a few hundred dollars for a smallish bottle. enough to do all ornanments I suppose. It really does work for the interior. It would take too long to do it outside (in addition to silver monolayer Thoroughbred faded).
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