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I bought this lap dragon off Ebay. The pictures didn’t show how up close all the paint is cracked and the horns are spotted. Any suggestions how i can at least clean up the horns? She still looks good from a distance but i am disappointed at how misrepresenting the photos were.
I bought this lap dragon off Ebay. The pictures didn’t show how up close all the paint is cracked and the horns are spotted. Any suggestions how i can at least clean up the horns? She still looks good from a distance but i am disappointed at how misrepresenting the photos were.
Is that the mysterious horn rot I have heard about?
And the crackle on the side is called crazing. some clear coats will do that over time when exposed to varying environments.
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I wonder if jewelry cleaning solution and a soft cloth would work on horns if anyone would know? I have cleaned tarnished gold and silver jewelry with that that made it nice and shiny again.
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I would say try a jewelry cleaning cloth… it’s real gold plating on the horns, so it *should* clean and polish up the same as gold jewelry would.. I wouldn’t do a liquid anything, as I have no idea how that would affect the paint if it dribbled, but you can get a cleaning/polishing cloth at Walmart/Target/Michaels/Hobby Lobby… at the least, that is where I would start if I had a horn that looked like this..
I don’t know if this lap (an older one) falls into the category for “horn rot”, but the factory had an issue with the folks that used to do the gold plating on at least one batch of horns. It was either done improperly or poorly– I forget the exact details. They used the horns for a while without realizing the problem. Regardless, the amount of gold on normal gold plating is quite thin, and the bad batch may have been even thinner. Use jewelry cleaning tools and polishes with extreme caution and at your own risk.
If you have nothing to lose, you can try polishing or cleaning them, but if it is “Horn rot” (where impurities or poor plating is causing tarnishing, which should not happen) it is unlikely to help.
In that case, the only real way to make them shiny again is with the gold paint pen and then a layer of clear sealer, as mentioned above.
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My art: featherdust.comPam and I have never seen anything like this before. It does not look the same as what we’ve called “horn rot”. The gold plating is VERY thin. You might want to polish very carefully on one of those tiny spots to determine if the spot is on top of the gold plate, or a hole right through it. Underneath it is silver colored pewter.
Sorry I can’t be of much help, but did you contact the seller about the misrepresenting photos? Explain how it would have affected your decision to purchase – They may be willing to give you a partial discount.
Sorry I can’t be of much help, but did you contact the seller about the misrepresenting photos? Explain how it would have affected your decision to purchase – They may be willing to give you a partial discount.
If it was purchased on eBay there is buyer protection. In theory you could ask for a full refund as it was misrepresented 🙂 I don’t know if it’s the same on your side of the pond, but here we have something called the Distance Trading Act, which is a law that protects consumers when buying online.
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