Thank you very much for your opinion. Best regards.Looks much better. Nice work!
Thank you Sandy for your kind words.RegardsReally nice work. It looks much better now, well done
Mine also look like this.Regards.......my lungs would look like that 1st image!
Nice job!
I would also like not to smoke,but it is the worst addiction.I am fixing the rest for the emblem,but slowly the work goes.Very nice, great job of cleaning. 1825.....ten years after Napoleon met his Waterloo! Smoke free for 13 years now I chose life.
JohnWojtek,
Another fantastic save of a unique piece of historical headgear! Would you mind sharing your secret to cleaning the nicotine residue off the badge? I look forward to seeing the progress of the restoration of the hat.
On a side note, my wife has gotten me to use vinegar and water solutions to clean most of my militaria collection. She has been using that combination for years. The solution seems to work pretty well on my pickelhauben for cleaning household dust of them. I try to remember to try and use it on a small section of a device I am cleaning if something goes amiss. LOL
Best regards
John