Featured Finds Thread

Welcome back, elarnia! Very cool collection!

 

Greg, will that work for greenies and gunk on an old one cent coin (1847)? It's really a mess.

 

Hi Sue,
Yes it will work on all bronze or copper coins. I use it to clean all my dug coins. I think I heard it first from Davey years ago on the coin board. It even worked on a life size bronze crucifix. When my church had that fire, it had green streaks and lime deposits from the water. I could not submerge it so I spent a couple of days wiping it down and pouring the oil over it. It all came off quickly since it was recent. Even after it had been washed with soap and water and dried, it was shiny and looked like an oiled Arnold Schwarzenegger. After a couple days the fine dust coated him and he looked normal again.
greg

 

Thanks, Greg.

It was under the cornerpost of a saltbox addition to the back of a house I owned long, long ago. The post had rot and needed to be replaced so the workmen found it and gave it to me. I found it again when I was rummaging through a tin of random coins and other "stuff" last week. I could barely see what it was.

 

1847 cent coin could be worth some money ........

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=1847+cent+coin&tbm=shop

 

Holy moley!

 

so you can clean it but don't polish it.

Is that right everyone ???

 

Not that simple. Coin folk would say you can 'conserve' it but a lot of what non coin folk would call cleaning is taboo. The olive oil soak is generally admissable for buried stuff, and possibly warm soapy water and nothing more abrasive than finger tips, and natural drying, not even wiped dry.

In general it is best to stick with the simple principle of 'Don't do it' unless you really understand coin conservation science and techniques, or just do not care

 

or want a nice shiny coin to play with .!!!

 

Hi Sue,
Soak it in oil, you have nothing to lose. If it is really corroded it has minimal value after a soak you may be suprized. When I was living in Brooklyn the city dig up an old playground and removed several layers of cement and black top. I found several coins which I could not even ID since they were so bad. A month long soak got rid of most of it and you could at least see the year they were minted. The year 1847 was poking at my brain now I see why.
greg

 

No cleaning if you want coin value

 

Thanks, Greg.
Don't worry i will leave it this way as i like patina, even the green thing (oxidation?)

Here's the newest thing i bought. This comes from Germany.
The seller asked €16 for it but after some haggling i got it for just €8. I guess it's more than 100 years old. 1890's, early 1900's?
The frame is in bad condition, but even in this condition i like it. It's a big one, 60 x 70cm.

 

Is it just me or the angle of the photograph or the distance from the camera which makes the woman's hand and arm on the right-side of my screen look considerably smaller and shorter than the arm/hand on the left-side of my screen? Just curious.

I love all of the embellishments falling down the front of her outfit. Is that large bow near her throat her hat ribbons?

 

Hi,
I love it just as it is. It is a great photo and frame. we need a little green emoticon for envy.
greg

 

I think it's mostly the angle from which the pic was taken. But does anyone else think that the chair behind her back is a painting and not a real chair? I wonder what she was actually sitting on.....

 

Bakersgma, I think you may be right about the chair being a painting. There doesn't seem to be any "depth" to the area where she is "sitting." Looks like she might have been sitting on a small bench or stool or . . . with a small table beside her.

 

Sorry for butting in here, but--
Look at the hairline, is there any possibility this is a guy?
Aerosmith's Dude looks like a lady comes to mind?

 

Just ugly

See the food thread

 

Happy!, I thought the sitter looked a bit masculine (but then I decided to talk only about the "shorter arm and smaller hand" ).

 

Yourturn, you are very gracious, me, I usually put my foot in my mouth!
The hairline really bugs me...but what do I know of old hairdoos.
I am trying to think of it as a male actor in costume as a female. Or just a mean ole lady. She/he looks scary.