A Plaster Ornament
Dear Aunt Daisy, Can you help me with a problem? I have a lovely white plaster ornament‘it is a boy in a frock-coat and a top hat, wheeling a barrow with a basket on it. Now the lad’s face is dirty and greasy-looking (I’ve repeatedly lifted him up by his face!) and also the crevices of the barrow-spokes and the basket and his coat are all dirty. How | can I clean my ornament?
Christine
I think I would just make a thinnish paste of magnesia’ and. carbon tetra chloride, and brush it carefully all over the ornament, putting it in all the folds and crevices. Leave it on for 24 hours or so, and then brush the dried paste off. You could use old softened toothbrushes. Very likely a paste made of borax and warm water will do equally well, or alum and warm water. But the carbon tetra chloride is a solvent for any greasiness. Both borax and alum are bleaching, too. Has anyone solved a similar problem?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Page 27
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172A Plaster Ornament New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 478, 20 August 1948, Page 27
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