What would CPR do?
It'd have been polished.
It's a pretty simple shape - not a lot of nooks and crannies - so polishing it shouldn't take too long. If it does, then just do it less often.
Besides, what do you have in your air up there to corrode it so it'd have to be polished often? It's not riding behind a steam locomotive (sadly), and not much sulfur or stuff like that around in the atmosphere any more.
- PDN.
The patina will last. If you polish it, you'll have to polish it.
I think I'd polish it, but make sure I knew what I was doing in the process.
It is a beauty.
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OK...so the neighbour down the street, a charming couple, gave me this for Christmas.
https://i.imgur.com/T2ehO9M.jpg
Very nice ...stamped CPR, it's pretty hefty, obviously a lot of silver in it, even the soldering. Do not know too much about it outside of the fact that it wandered around the rails in Saskatchewan, likely in a heavyweight dining car. It came from an ex-boyfriend of the neighbour wife's mom, who worked for the CPR back in the day, and he got it from his uncle, also a CPR employee. Believe it came from Regina as that is where they lived, but never mind that stuff....
....So fellow Forum members, do I polish this teapot or do I leave it as is with its patina intact?
Looks great on small table under the T1 Baldwin reproduction print from the T1 group.
Alas....To polish or not to polish? that is the question.
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