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I doubt if it's sold in 55 gallon drums.
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Could verdicare bring the statue of liberty back to it's original color if we used enough of it?  Actually, the copper chloride patina on the statue offers protection to the copper underneath so it's best left green.  Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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Haha, I just looked up verdigris on wikipedia because you guys were talking about it. Then I saw a picture of the statue of liberty and noticed it was green. I looked up what it was made of and it said copper. I had no idea it was made out of copper and not meant to be that green color. So that's an awesome fun fact I learned from looking up verdigris. lol.
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I had no idea it was made out of copper and not meant to be that green color. No, it is meant to be green, just like all other architectural copper. The green patina protects the copper from further corrosion. It would be impossible to maintain the orange-red color of raw copper when exposed to the elements. Edited by biokemist6
09/11/2011 8:55 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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I wonder why they don't go for the brown/black oxidation you see on a lot of bronze sculpture...
Edited by CaptainFwiffo
09/11/2011 9:41 pm
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Different alloy.
Next time you go by an old church, check out the green coloring on the sides, pouring down from the copper roof. It's the patina being washed off.
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Valued Member
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i have been doing research on verdi since donkeys years but I had no idea about liberty I have visted her dozens of times wow thats fascinating
maybe someone can explain why its not all eaten up on the inside like copper coins with verdi
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maybe someone can explain why its not all eaten up on the inside like copper coins with verdi
The surfaces are most certainly pitted. Copper chloride is the most protective type of verdigris. It just seems worse on a coin because it's so small in comparison and little flaws are more critical. Lincoln Cent Lover!VERDI-CARE™ INVENTOR https://verdi.care/
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ah uncle thad just the person I was looking for
but the liberty has been there for centuries shouldn't the pitting increase to an extent where the structure becomes unstable. pitting leaves hole in the coin eventually so I would envision the same for the statue or how long do you think it will last ( the statue) and can your verdicare save it?
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The interior structure supporting the statue is steel (that part was taken care of by one Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel). The copper skin is fairly thin and doesn't actually support the structure. It's undergone some repairs over the years to replace or fix the most heavily corroded bits.
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I was going though some coin roll hunting finds that I had set aside in flips and deciding whether they should be thrown back because they were nothing, or they were keepers and needed to go in 2x2s. I have this nice 1970-D indent strike error, but it had some verdigris and gunk on it. I gave it an acetone bath, which got rid of grease and gunk, but made the verdigris look worse by sucking the oil out of it and making it lighter colored. Sounds like a problem for VERDI-CARE(tm)!  I used the microfiber cloth application technique. There was one stubborn lump of verdigris by the D on the reverse which required a couple pokes from a toothpick to break up. I may go for a second pass to see if I can take care of the remnants and get a better match in terms of gloss and color. I'm pretty pleased! I've got a bunch of greenie wheaties that I'm gonna give a shot to when I have time. |
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but the liberty has been there for centuries shouldn't the pitting increase to an extent where the structure becomes unstable Dedicated in 1886, the Statue of Liberty received extensive restorations in 1938 and 1986. If ignored, it would eventually corrode away to nothing but the National Park Service employs sacrificial anodes and other corrosion prevention methods to help stabilize the patina. So far, the restorations have been on a 50 year timeline so expect the Statue to be scaffolded again sometime around 2030. |
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Excellent conservation captain! I love seeing results like that....thanks.
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I agree. Very nice!  |
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