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What kind of oxidation?

 

There's many possible mildly abrasive compounds common in our homes that can be used in a pinch for polishing... from toothpaste to bicarb, to Brasso/Silvo (even on plastics!).

 

Jewellers rouge or valve lapping compound if your neighbourhood has those trades.

 

Or if there's a hobby shop that caters for builders of miniatures or railroad dioramas, they've got plenty of micromesh, Mylar lapping film, paint finishing rubbing compounds.

 

Or there's always ammonia on tinfoil, if you remember your school chemistry :)

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why are you asking awkward and technical questions :D it's that brownish discolouration that occurs on older BHR (vulcanised?) pens made prior to mid 1920s. Apparently it's stable in the dark, but that lovely bright shiny really black look is fugitive to light - so unless you write only with the lights off, or keep all your BHR pens in a dark and sealed cabinet, they are liable to lose sulphur and go a dingy brownish colour.

Apparently you can abrade the surface but the often present chased surface decoration is liable to disappear with too much rubbing.

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you sound a dab hand at removal of these things Chrissy - it sounds as though it may gave been a screen printed job - a shame we can't remove, just as easily, the oxidation on some of those older black pens.

 

It's the only pen I've knowingly bought with a logo on it. I thought it looked like it would come off. I bought Meguiars polish from Amazon.com one year then didn't have anything to polish with it.

 

I've seen black pens returned to their former glory, but I'm not sure what's used for that. Here at home I have several jars, tubes and bottles of different types of polish that I use for scratch removal etc.I don't have any old black pens that have oxidised though. :)

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I also have jewellers rouge, but haven't so far used it on any of my pens.

 

I didn't do ammonia on tinfoil at school. If I did I don't remember it. That was a different century.

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Darn it. :( I intended to bid on a Parker Sonnet on ebay yesterday. It looked like it had a gold nib and it went for the princely sum of £16. Now I may never know.... -_-

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Darn it. :( I intended to bid on a Parker Sonnet on ebay yesterday. It looked like it had a gold nib and it went for the princely sum of £16. Now I may never know.... -_-

 

I bought more than ten Sonnets for $20 (or less in some cases) that turned out with gold nibs.

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anything on tinfoil sounds rather Class A or B ish to me, and regret I'm away with the fairies when it comes to science, totally clueless ............ how do you use ammonia on tinfoil please, and what does it do? I know it reacts with tannic acid in oak and make the wood go very dark. :)

Jewellers rouge (cerium oxide, I assume) has very similar uses to aluminium oxide, and is really a polish only, and not an abrasive in the real sense.......... and it is an abrasive that you'd need to remove the several microns of oxide from these older black pens. I had a notion that I recalled Gary Lehrer comment something to the effect that there was a proprietary cream that helped........ but I could be very wrong on that.

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I bought more than ten Sonnets for $20 (or less in some cases) that turned out with gold nibs.

 

That's a very good deal, and worthy off applause. :notworthy1: Sadly, at the moment. I have to content myself with ebay UK rather than ebay.com. Sonnets with gold nibs don't often start low at auction here. :closedeyes:

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That's a very good deal, and worthy off applause. :notworthy1: Sadly, at the moment. I have to content myself with ebay UK rather than ebay.com. Sonnets with gold nibs don't often start low at auction here. :closedeyes:

It is entirely different here. No ebay, no paypal here. It is either antique bazars or local auction sites. More supply less demand situation. kind of captive market.

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