Thanks! Does anybody else have any cleaning suggestions? Besides revealing more detail, I'd like to lighten the patina up a bit. Would toothpaste be advisable? I'm worried about using anything abrasive since there is still some fine detail left on some of the leaves and flowers I wouldn't want to scrub off.
I still have no idea what the decoration with the axe head is. About 2 inches higher than it is the tip of a spear with what looks like a flag draping down from it. I've made out a little more of the writing at the bottom. It seems to say :
LEC.....ETTE
...PARIS
The dots representing letters I can't make out. I bought it from a seller in France, so no surprise on the Paris part.
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