04-05-2012, 04:47 PM
For me clean (almost always).
Polish - Never!
I've come across a great amount substances attached to awards that are far from natural. Grease, wax, plasticine, blood, tobacco smoke (and all the comes with it), animal faeces, sticky tape, mud, dust, metal polish and of course fake patina. None of which were ever intended to be displayed of someone's chest.
Clean then store, if any natural patina occurs during storage that just means they are still being exposed to atmosphere.
Most of the "junk" found on items can continue to damage the items. Specially if someone has been polishing brass or silver with polishes as they deliberate go green/black so you have to buy more polish and do it again.
Polish - Never!
I've come across a great amount substances attached to awards that are far from natural. Grease, wax, plasticine, blood, tobacco smoke (and all the comes with it), animal faeces, sticky tape, mud, dust, metal polish and of course fake patina. None of which were ever intended to be displayed of someone's chest.
Clean then store, if any natural patina occurs during storage that just means they are still being exposed to atmosphere.
Most of the "junk" found on items can continue to damage the items. Specially if someone has been polishing brass or silver with polishes as they deliberate go green/black so you have to buy more polish and do it again.
"Signed with his own rubber stamp"
