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epigramophone wrote:

stetam wrote:FYI - Ketchup left on for 5 minutes and then used a scotch-brite pad for 20 seconds. The acidity in the ketchup removed the tarnish and oxidation easily. Once a polish is done it should remove the light scratches and look quite nice.

That sounds like a good reason for not eating ketchup . Rather like Coca-Cola's ability to free stuck pistons in car engines, but drink the stuff? Never!

Hmmm. Never used Coke for stuck pistons but have used it constantly to clean battery terminals for decades. Never drank another Coke since I first saw it in action, either. They make a great parts cleaner solvent and also a furniture stripper from orange citrus... should we stop eating oranges and drinking orange juice?

"A day without orange juice is like a day without... solvent?"

phonogfp wrote:

stetam wrote:Could someone more knowledgeable than myself please venture a guess who made these horns?

Show the hanger on the flower horn.

The diamond-shaped hanger on the brass horn suggests either a pre-1901 Hawthorne & Sheble, or a Standard Metal Manufacturing Co. horn. It it's a Standard, it may have markings on the hanger.

George P.

Flower horn hanger

The riveted hanger looks like that for a Tea Tray Company horn.

George P.

phonogfp wrote:The riveted hanger looks like that for a Tea Tray Company horn.

George P.

Thank you George P.

You're very welcome.

George P.