Help Cleaning 19th Century Iron Trivet

[Neil in West Jersey]

I found this trivet at a 19th century tavern site. I almost threw it out thinking it was a dirt encrusted iron fragment and i realized it has an apple or strawberry image on the front.

I have used electrolysis on coins before, but will an object this large work with a cell phone charger?

What about a wire brush?

[cosmic]

I believe it will work just fine.. It will take a while longer.. you might want to move the negative lead around it in different places to get a even result...

[Don in SJ]

Neil, check out my posts on cleaning my two iron trivets, phone charger will work fine in most cases.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...c,64349.0.html

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...c,64612.0.html

Don

[Neil in West Jersey]

Thanks again , Don!