Posting for David Zincavage:
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:18:47 -0800
> From: David Zincavage <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: recovering worn inscriptions on steel
>
> Would anyone be able to refer me to information on techniques for recovery
> of worn inscriptions on metal? The objects I'd be dealing with would
> typically be arms amd armor, and consequently iron or steel.
>
> David Zincavage
>
> Here are some photos of examples: incomplete worn-away images of a stag
> (probably the makers mark of a member of the Berns family of Solignen,
> possibly Meves Berns fl. c. 1650).
>
> http://zincavage.org/Hirschfanger.htm
>