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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sedona, post: 3682342, member: 4438&quot;]Hello everyone. My mother in law is downsizing and moving so I’m going to be posting a few things in the next few weeks. I’m in Los Angeles, and my in laws bought this abalone turtle-shaped covered dish on a family vacation to Mexico in the 1970s, so it’s about 45-50 years old. It’s marked on a foot, and there are a few of these online right now. It’s more or less a foot long.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks as if the top is made of abalone shell onto copper (inside the lid). My guess is that the rest of it is brass. There’s a metal handle on top that may ask so be brass. </p><p><br /></p><p>Question if this should be cleaned up at all, or left as is. The abalone looks a little dull but obviously I don’t want to ruin that at all. I would like to clean up the little handle on top, and I have a photo of that. If I should clean it up (other than a very lightly damp cloth), what to use? My mother in law lived near the ocean, so it’s been by salt air for about five years (not right by a window, and always inside).</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you, all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]310892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310893[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310894[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310897[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310898[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310899[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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