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<p>[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 432841, member: 8258"]You will not be able to just clean/polish up the brass (I don't know if Stiffel used solid brass in those years). There is a lacquered finish on them and it appears and it has been compromised to the point of getting to the finish.</p><p><br /></p><p>You would need to strip off the lacquer before trying to 'fix' the finish issues. If you could get the brass cleaned up (it does not appear to be an easy fix to me), you'd need to lacquer them afterwards. This whole process would be an undertaking, given the intricacy of the design.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of Stiffel lamps have antique brass finishes on them. I can't tell from the photos if that's the case here. If they are, that finish is where the problem is, and would be impossible to fix with a cleaning and polishing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sabre123, post: 432841, member: 8258"]You will not be able to just clean/polish up the brass (I don't know if Stiffel used solid brass in those years). There is a lacquered finish on them and it appears and it has been compromised to the point of getting to the finish. You would need to strip off the lacquer before trying to 'fix' the finish issues. If you could get the brass cleaned up (it does not appear to be an easy fix to me), you'd need to lacquer them afterwards. This whole process would be an undertaking, given the intricacy of the design. A lot of Stiffel lamps have antique brass finishes on them. I can't tell from the photos if that's the case here. If they are, that finish is where the problem is, and would be impossible to fix with a cleaning and polishing.[/QUOTE]
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