Mebbee these folks can help:

<http://www.heritagepreservation.org/programs/SOS/index.html>

Dan
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Dan Becker, Division Manager
City & Regional Planning Division 
Raleigh Department of City Planning
One Exchange Plaza, Ste 300 (27601)
PO Box 590, Raleigh NC, 27602
919/516-2632 (v); 919/516-2682 (f)
http://www.raleighnc.gov
 

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> 
> It had been a long time since Ive seen zinc -cast civil war 
> statue ; Vicksburg has a few of them made of somthing called 
> navy brass (bonze and zinc ) but this baby is all Zinc and 
> the patina is an oxidized grey .
> No one living can remember what the original patina looked 
> like ; but my guess was bronze after a few short years turned 
> black ;and then after the electro plating wore off  a solid grey . 
> The owners (a collective of well meaning men who don't know 
> shit from shinola ) have entrusted me to save it ; 
> Thats not a problem ; we do that ; but I am reluctant to have 
> to sell to them an iterpetation no one remembers or can 
> support ( all courthouse civil war soldiers here are white 
> marble by the way )
> that leaves me a pig in a poke...or .by  a sticky wicket .
> any suggestions of similar technical challanges (missing  
> electro plating  )so now what ?    They already told me not 
> to get too fussy with finishes 
> I can clean with an Orvus solution and hot water  or I also 
> have very soft amlumiin silicate mirco powders to lightly 
> blast with ; but then what ?...by the way ..The staute they 
> assured me was not to far from the hanging tree  Py

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