Yellow Knife Handles
Dear Aunt Daisy, We are regular readers of The Listener in this corner of the world so far from New Zealand and have found many of your recipes and suggestions most useful. I am wondering if you can tell me of any way to whiten knife handles that have gone very yellow. Since mine have been entrusted to folk who forget that they shouldn’t be put into hot water, they have become very discoloured.
M.A.
W.
Tanganyika.
What a far-away Link in our Daisy Chain you are. Try whitening your knife-handles by making a paste or plaster of lemon-juice and whiteningor cream of tartar and peroxide. Leave the paste on for some hours, then wipe off, and polish with a silk handkerchiet or a chamois leather. Sometimes just rubbing with a cut lemon dipped in salt will do the trick or even rubbing with plain peroxide, I have also heard of people plastering tooth-paste on the'| handles, and leaving it on a few hours | betore wiping oft.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 23
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170Yellow Knife Handles New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 23
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