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Hi Tom, Thanx for the fast response (again)....
Just contacted Lutz&Weiss about this item by email, if they respond I wil put their info here

regards,

michiel

Hi,

Got a nice "Sinterklaas" present (a dutch tradition, celebraded on 5th of december) which came from a flee marked. It will be used (again) for instruction purposes for metalconservation students (I will probably intentionally make some dents which they will have to remove). I know it`s German ...

Hi,
A piece like this would be washed in water+non-ionic soap and then cleaned with a slurry of preticipated chalk in water with a little non-ionic soap added (2%), using cotton wool swaps (like swaps on a stick and the round ones normally used for removal of make-up). Chalk residues are washed away ...

Does someone recognise the mark on this salt?
It reads "T.85" T and both 8 & 5 are individually underlined ,
see pictures.

The salt is a recent addition to my little collection of salts which I use for instruction purposes (As a metal conservator/restorer I give courses on several subjects ...