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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheOLdGuy, post: 81933, member: 878&quot;]I have three Gorham silver-plate candlesticks. Identical - Greek columns, Corinthian capital. One is &quot;sans bobeche.&quot; Two made in 1912, the other 1913.</p><p><br /></p><p>No picture. They are in one of the cases I have in an antique shop. You may click to see one of several on eBay for ID. Note the intricate detail because I’m asking about cleaning.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-2-Gorham-Sterling-Silver-Corinthian-Column-Candlesticks-A3207-10-1-4-/252073756295?hash=item3ab0c44687" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-2-Gorham-Sterling-Silver-Corinthian-Column-Candlesticks-A3207-10-1-4-/252073756295?hash=item3ab0c44687" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-2-Gorham-Sterling-Silver-Corinthian-Column-Candlesticks-A3207-10-1-4-/252073756295?hash=item3ab0c44687</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine are silver plate, or, as Gorham labeled, EP. My problem is with cleaning/polishing. <b>Possibly because of their history?</b>They spent about 40 years wintering in the garage, not heated but attached and not frozen. Spring, summer and fall they relaxed 24 hours a day outside on the deck furniture. One day I noticed the markings and decided to check them out. Found four recent sales at $100 each, so replaced them with other old glass and brass candlestick holders and tried to prepare them for sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our silver polish varied between Wrights and Weiman. The candlesticks didn’t get very clean after much work with polish and toothbrushes, Q-tips, etc. I also tried – and this is only after accepting what many others told me – Ultrabrite tooth paste. (It worked great on sterling items.) Almost tried a bottle of heavy duty silver cleaner, but the label warned not to use on antique silver, plate or sterling. Finally gave up and put the candlesticks in the antiques store As-Is. Still there. So much for Antique Road Show advice that most buyers want to do their own restoration.</p><p><br /></p><p>They are not worth having commercially silvered.&nbsp; I have used modest amounts of gilt on such as lightly worn picture frames. Is there a comparable silver product you would recommend for these candlesticks? Or would you consider them beyond salvage due to their outside exposure?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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