Just finished our latest projects which are reproductions of the Trelan Bahow mirror and the bronze comb found at Tanworth-in-Arden. The mirror is plain polished bronze on the back. The comb is a lot shinier than in the picture and is the same colour as the mirror.
Beautiful mirror! Polishes polishing pastes bought in a shop or do they? I sometimes .... rarely, because it's a lot of work, hand-polished stuff you do with a paste of wood ash, soot and tallow wild. This is best out on the elements of simple type necklaces, daggers, swords. This necklace and bracelet, with pictures, polished a few hours.
I attended a Victorian weekend one weekend back in the 1980's in Tanworth. Is the village still as small as it was then (or has it been merged with another village nearby)