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<p>[QUOTE="Odrade, post: 3222547, member: 16577"]Hello everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>We have found a wooden cupboard (with loupe de noyer plating). Everything in quite a nice state. I just cleaned it and gave some care for the wood.</p><p>There was also a mirror on it, in not so good state.</p><p>We took it off and actually, the paint hiding the silver backing is all flaking off. I used a soft brush to take most of the remaining paint off.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y299/Darwi/MiroirArmoirePh1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y299/Darwi/MiroirArmoirePh2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>We do not care if we can't use the mirror as such. And I have seen that re-silvering it costs a lot of money. </p><p>What I want to do now is to spray the back (over the remaining silver) black and maybe put an additional layer of paint over it to protect it and fix the mirror back.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this stupid ?</p><p>O.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS Sorry for my English... is not my mother tongue[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Odrade, post: 3222547, member: 16577"]Hello everyone, We have found a wooden cupboard (with loupe de noyer plating). Everything in quite a nice state. I just cleaned it and gave some care for the wood. There was also a mirror on it, in not so good state. We took it off and actually, the paint hiding the silver backing is all flaking off. I used a soft brush to take most of the remaining paint off. [IMG]https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y299/Darwi/MiroirArmoirePh1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/y299/Darwi/MiroirArmoirePh2.jpg[/IMG] We do not care if we can't use the mirror as such. And I have seen that re-silvering it costs a lot of money. What I want to do now is to spray the back (over the remaining silver) black and maybe put an additional layer of paint over it to protect it and fix the mirror back. Is this stupid ? O. PS Sorry for my English... is not my mother tongue[/QUOTE]
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