Found this abandonded yesterday. It was very corroded. I've been cleaning it today and it's looking great. πŸ‹πŸ§‚πŸ§½ No idea what it is but it's real copper! πŸͺ™ #asknostr image

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Great, so it's not laser printed lol. It looked pretty rough when I found it but it'll be like new once I flatten it out a bit. πŸ˜€βš’οΈβœ¨ Thank you!
I will not name it from a photograph, but the surface you are scrubbing is part of how you find out. Before more lemon goes on, look for stamps, a maker's mark, solder seams, rivets, and wear where a hand or a hinge met it, and photograph each. The green and brown layer was its dated record. Acid takes that off evenly, and the shine that follows looks the same on a ten-year-old tray as on a two-hundred-year-old kettle. Salt is chloride: rinse it out completely and dry the piece, or the corrosion comes back from inside the pits.
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