Antique Furniture : How to Restore Antique Mirrors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ม.ค. 2012
- When buying antique mirrors, it's important to simply use the mirrors, as it is not environmentally safe to restore mirrors anymore. Learn about the pollution aspect of restoring antique mirrors with help from an antique furniture dealer in this free video on antique mirrors.
Expert: Karen Booth
Bio: Karen Booth and her husband, Jim, own Cape Fear Antiques and Consignment, and offer Wilmington's finest collection of antiques and estate home furnishings.
Filmmaker: Rendered Communications
Series Description: When buying antique mirrors, it's important to simply use the mirrors, as it is not environmentally safe to restore mirrors anymore. Learn about the pollution aspect of restoring antique mirrors with help from an antique furniture dealer in this free video series on antique furniture.
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Shouldn`t the title of this video be "Don`t restore an antiques mirror" rather than "How to.....???? Just sayin.
I didn't know old mirrors contained mercury, thanks for informing me.
What a complete waste of a video. The title reads, "how to restore antique mirrors"...but should be "don't restore antique mirrors.
Wow, thanks for wasting 1 minute and 22 seconds of my life telling me how to NOT restore a mirror.
Diana Ortiz 😂😂😂IKR
Amen to that...lol
I find it even rude. Maybe she should change the title yo DO NOT BUY OR RESTORE ANTIQUE MIRROR.
English please.
Which I'm going to do anyway and she even did give us the first step.
Q: When did they stop using mercury in mirrors?
A: Mirror makers stopped using mercury in the 1840s, instead switching to silver nitrate, which is still used today.
Lol least helpful video on youtube by far!
I was looking for How To videos about how to resilver an old mirror I have (not sure if it's antique or merely looks like) and I've got to say that this is an important video you've made. I definitely did not know about before the possible mercury. I will look for a professional or leave as it is. Thank You!
Aww I waz wanting to fix Tha back side wood on the mirror of my grandma fay dresser itz from the 40s and Wie just brought it home haft nat had a chance in the last day to bring it un and even under the eve of the neighbor s house it got wet and is got ripples now .
and? how do I repair it>>>
Not all old mirrors are mercury.
Thanks a lot lady! 😐
wow, why do you call this how to restore a mirror? If I was enjoying my old mirror I would have not looked at how to restore it.
As it rained just 4 hours ago, and my grandma fay went extinct like 2 years ago and had nat lived in hir house since 4 yrs before that .
this video left a worse taste in my mouth than that thermometer I was chewing on
I want my time back
Hi there. Very informative about mirros being coated with mercury! I never knew and and so happy to have learned this just now! Could anyone tell me how to tell if your mirror has mercury or not. I have seen people "re-silvering" mirrors. Is that the same thing? I do not want to harm the environment over a mirror! Thanks for your input!
It doesn't actually matter. She's talking about the abundance of mercury in our oceans but it's really just a virtue signal. We could all go out back and resurface our mirrors at once tomorrow and it won't ever have the impact CHINA has on our oceans every day.
Good to know. We only have one planet to live on. When it is destroyed, so are we.
You're completely incapable of doing your own thinking aren't you?
Glad to know!
No more mercury for me. Had a mouthful for decades.
so scrap it off in the back yard and spray with Kyron silver mirror paint.
I would always get so damn irritated with these idiots when they would ask me to resilver their beautiful mid-19th century or early mirrors. Much of the time there was hardly a blemish at all in the original mercury-tin slivering. It’s amazing how well that technique held up over time. But people would rather wipe away the originality and important history of a piece just to make it more “shiny.” The environmental concerns are pretty moot in my opinion because believe me there are not very many mercury mirrors lying in acid tubs around the world being stripped each day to make much of a significant impact on the environment, if that truly is the main concern here. Just please don’t destroy the originality of a piece of significant history. It’s like resurfacing a beautifully gilded girandole frame, refinishing an original mahogany surface on a early Federal demilune, or polishing away a centuries old patina from a 1792 US disme. Don’t do it. Period.
Thank you I didn't know that, we were just about to try and restore one so this video was very useful, we will be leaving it as it is now :-)
There are many chemical disposal plants. Why can't I sand it on a garbage bag then give the dust to a plant? I would go the extra mile because it is worth it.
Buy a new mirror? Okey dokey, I'll chuck this 150 year old one in the trash, thanks for letting me know :)
Oh brother.
There are many similar projects in Woodglut's plans.
I did it with Woodglut.
😳😳😳
Lol, shhhhhaaaaadddup
WT actual F ?
Merkree. 😂
Title needs to be changed so it doesn't look like a "How To" video when it's describing why it's environmentally unsafe to restore them. Title is misleading.
This is so deceptive
How to restore a mirror: don’t
Not gonna even try and lie to us? Just straight up clickbait and tell us there is no hope! 🙄
Lol...this wasn’t a how to at all.
Your two options:
“Buy it and use it as it is”
Or
“Buy a new mirror” 😂😂🤦🏼♀️
Lot of useless help that was
What a joke!!!
Change the title to: How To NOT Explain Mirror Restoration!