Comments on: Patination and Historic Bottles http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/patination-and-historic-bottles Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Tue, 21 May 2013 11:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Julia Moseley http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/patination-and-historic-bottles/comment-page-1#comment-19612 Julia Moseley Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:37:33 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=2286957#comment-19612 Thanks for your help. The glass is window glass that was buried during the Civil War. It is broken in pieces from 4 x 4 down to 2 x 2. I want to make a leaded glass hanging from it. Thanks again. Thanks for your help. The glass is window glass that was buried during the Civil War. It is broken in pieces from
4 x 4 down to 2 x 2. I want to make a leaded glass hanging from it. Thanks again.

]]> By: Bill Lindsey http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/patination-and-historic-bottles/comment-page-1#comment-19569 Bill Lindsey Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:35:00 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=2286957#comment-19569 Hi Julia....in a word: carefully. I assume here you are asking about the "good" patination with the rainbow hue - like some of the images I posted - and not the non-esthetic milky white staining that most want to be rid of? Patination on bottles will often partially flake off regardless of what you do, though it will usually still leave some residual - and significant - patination remaining. My only suggestion is to wash it (whatever "it" is) as gently as you can without the use of any scrubbing pad...just use a soft dish cloth. If that doesn't get it clean enough, you may just have to accept it not being as clean as you want. Simply put, if your primary goal is the keep as much of the patination intact as possible, the less cleaning the better...at least once you have all the dirt or grime gently removed so that you can at least see the underlying patination beauty. Hi Julia….in a word: carefully. I assume here you are asking about the “good” patination with the rainbow hue – like some of the images I posted – and not the non-esthetic milky white staining that most want to be rid of?

Patination on bottles will often partially flake off regardless of what you do, though it will usually still leave some residual – and significant – patination remaining.

My only suggestion is to wash it (whatever “it” is) as gently as you can without the use of any scrubbing pad…just use a soft dish cloth. If that doesn’t get it clean enough, you may just have to accept it not being as clean as you want.

Simply put, if your primary goal is the keep as much of the patination intact as possible, the less cleaning the better…at least once you have all the dirt or grime gently removed so that you can at least see the underlying patination beauty.

]]> By: Julia Moseley http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/patination-and-historic-bottles/comment-page-1#comment-19566 Julia Moseley Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:57:34 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=2286957#comment-19566 Yes, please reply. Yes, please reply.

]]> By: Julia Moseley http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/patination-and-historic-bottles/comment-page-1#comment-19565 Julia Moseley Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:56:38 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=2286957#comment-19565 How do I wash antique glass without removing patination? How do I wash antique glass without removing patination?

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