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<p>[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 309340, member: 78"]Hi,</p><p> Love your mirror. A lot of different styles became very popular with the Centennial held in Philadelphia in the 1870s. Most of the later ones all had 12 stars instead of 13. My Centennial one had a blackened flat mirror and looked like yours and painted with grey aluminum radiator paint. It took a while to remove the paint and leave the gilding. Then I replaced the flat mirror with a convex one. I found the right size in a catalogue of truck parts. I usually save the mirror but since mine was a 1950 replacement, I tossed it.</p><p>greg[ATTACH=full]102160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gregsglass, post: 309340, member: 78"]Hi, Love your mirror. A lot of different styles became very popular with the Centennial held in Philadelphia in the 1870s. Most of the later ones all had 12 stars instead of 13. My Centennial one had a blackened flat mirror and looked like yours and painted with grey aluminum radiator paint. It took a while to remove the paint and leave the gilding. Then I replaced the flat mirror with a convex one. I found the right size in a catalogue of truck parts. I usually save the mirror but since mine was a 1950 replacement, I tossed it. greg[ATTACH=full]102160[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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