The amateur restorer may frequently with advantage acquire a knowledge of the burnisher, and thereby add much to the beauty of the metal. Those who have watched an old coppersmith planishing copper-work, and have noticed the very primitive materials used, will have learnt to realize the value of "elbow grease." Crocus powder with oil and soft rags works wonders, and will often bring up the original finish just as the coppersmith converts the rough dull polish of the metal sheets he has fashioned into domestic copper ware and shining pots and pans. Brass Rubbings. Rubbings of church and memorial brasses referred to in Chapter VII may be taken with heel-ball, which is a compound of beeswax, and plain white paper. When the brass has been evenly rubbed all over the picture is complete and ready for mounting. It should then be cut out and pasted on a prepared surface of fine canvas or calico, thus giving the rubbing an appearance like tapestry. It can be touched up in colours, if there is any heraldic enamelled work on the original. It can then be sized and stretched on a frame ready for hanging on a wall. INDEX INDEX African curios, 309-311 Alms-dishes, 140-143 Altar brasses, 142-143 Amulets, 33, 373-375 Ancient art, 70-72 Ancient bronze, 38-41 Aquamaniles, 101, 326 Arab influence, 267 Architectural metal-work, 121-124 Arms and armour, 106-109 Art influence, 128 Ashanti curios, 309 Ash-trays, 365 Astrolabes, 25 Badges of metal, 102 Ball and cross of St. Paul's, 143-144 Barometer of bronze, 341 Barrows, ancient, 25 Bath, 56 Battersea enamels, 31, 357 Bell founding, 43 Bell-metal, 43, 217-219 Bells, 217-226, 282, 309 Benares brasswork, 280 Benin bronzes, 307-309 Betel-nut boxes, 26, 278, 282 Betel-nut cutters, 279 Bidri ware, 26, 277 Bilston enamels, 31 Boadicea, Queen, 91 Boiling-pots, 98-101 Bowls, 84 Brass (of commerce), 42-43 Brass instruments, 340-345 Brass making, 45-46 Brass rubbings, 393 Brasses, 26 Brazier, 26 Braziers' Company, 117 British Museum exhibits, 59, 65, 168, 309, 326, 350, 356, 357 Bronze, 27 Bronze Age, 38, 66 Bronze alloys, 27 Bronze celts, 25 Bronze implements, 69 Bronze knives, 25 Bronze reaping-hooks, 72 Bronze saucepans, 283 Bronzes and their replicas, 249-258 Bronzes, Greek, 79-81 Bucklers, bronze, 28, 69 Buckles, 105 Bullock bells, 279 Burnishing metal, 293 Caldrons, 83, 160, 164 Candle clock, 208 Candles, 199-204 Candlesticks, 139, 140, 195-211, 301, 350 Card counters, 29 Central Africa, curios from, 310, 311 Champlevé enamel, 30 Chaufferette, 28, 128 Chatties, 28 Chimney ornaments, 184-188 Chinese bronzes, 41, 42, 283-288 Chinese enamels, 352-355 Chinese influence on art, 131 Church brasswork, 137-151 _Circe-perdu_ process, 28, 277 Cirencester curios, 54 Cisterns and taps, 322