The mind boggles!! Imagine trying to tell the story of that particular piece to a prospective customer!!!

The thing about patination that bothers me is how do you keep it looking as good as it did the day it was created?? I know we did some heat treatments at college on copper and got some stunning results and then tried different ways of sealing it but it muted the colours terribly!! But then nobody knew what they were doing there...and I mean the tutors - not the students!! There was no metals expert of any king during our last year so we had to sort of make it up as we went along...