Sunrise,
I've been searching for some past threads that relate to polishing bronze guns, but haven't had any luck in finding them. A. Caruana, along with probably every other ordnance historian, archaeologist, collector, and enthusiast understands that these bronze guns should never be polished, but this still leaves us with military top brass that have a mindset that impels them to have any object that can shine, be made shiny. The other polishing offenders are of two distinct types; those that are simply ignorant, and those that have some type of compulsive disorder. The simply ignorant can be demonstrated by the real life example of the guy that polished the heck out of his Mt. Howitzer, and was then dismayed when an artillery collector told him he had significantly reduced the worth of his cannon. The compulsive disorder type of shiner is another matter entirely, but one that can be better understood by examining one of our own members (who’ll remain nameless, so as to not cause him embarrassment) who when in the presence of any bronze, or brass object that does not blind him, falls into an incredibly profound state of depression. Yes,
Victor3's (oops) absolute need to have all bronze, and brass items compete with the sun's glare is indeed very puzzling behavior, but I don’t think we should hold this against him, because it is plainly evident that he has no control over this unfortunate condition.
