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Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 01-23-2012 12:54 PM THE JEWELERS REVIEW April 12, 1899 pg 454 quote: HUMAN POLISHING PADS The difficulty of keeping plate in polish is very great, and the secret of it is known to comparatively few people not in the trade. As a matter of fact, it is an industry which affords a livelihood to a large number of persons, chiefly girls, in London, Sheffield, Birmingham and other great centers. The big manufacturers of plated articles keep a large permanent staff of plate polishers at work, and an important part of their duty is to pay periodical visits to the retailers who stock the goods made by their employers, and clean up all the plate. The method of cleaning is curious. The chief feature of it is using the ball of the thumb as a polishing pad. With this wonderfully well-suited, natural pad and a little rouge powder these practiced polishers produce miracles of shininess. The dullest of metal quickly takes on a mirror-like polish under the hands of a good work girl, whose muscles, through long use, become almost untiring. IP: Logged
wev Moderator Posts: 4121 Registered: Apr 99	posted 01-23-2012 01:37 PM As Lord Peter Whimsey noted, you can judge the quality of a butler by the darkness of his thumbs. IP: Logged
Scott Martin Forum Master Posts: 11520 Registered: Apr 93	posted 01-23-2012 04:05 PM IP: Logged
swarter Moderator Posts: 2920 Registered: May 2003	posted 01-23-2012 06:54 PM I guess carpal tunnel syndrome hadn't been recognized yet??? IP: Logged

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