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jazimmons:
If it is of any help, I have used "ROUGE" make-up (which can be purchased from good pharmacists) which I sprinkle onto a sheet of mirror.  Working in circular motions, this will also grind AND smooth small chips to the outside rim of the foot or rim of an item.  A further method that I also use and swear by (to remove all manner of marks, dirt and limescale etc. inside any glass, particulary flower frogs and the likes) is good old fashioned "STERIDENT".  If it's good enough for false teeth, then?  I simply disolve two/three tablets into the hottest water (that I can get away with, but never boiling) and leave my vases etc. overnight.  By morinng they a clean and sparking!  Many a tide-mark & stain will simply vanish! Jazz

Paul S.:
ONE........I don't think that rouge would suit me, doesn't go with my current hair colour you know, and I find that I feel all sicky if I work in circular motions - but chips I really do like, although I'm not going to swear for any of you.   And why are you washing your glass at the seaside, you're bound to get tide marks, surely ;)   Ignore my flippancy Jazz - but I think I should employ you, whereas I seem to spend hours cleaning my Sunday morning finds, you, apparently, can get the dirt to simply vanish, and get things to look 'sparking'.   
However, I am a great believer in leaving some history in a piece of glass.    Is it essential to take away all of the distress of 80 - 100 years  -  I don't belong to the 'flea-biters' hate club - if something has been loved and used (like me ;D) then that is it's history, and if there is the odd flea bite, then that is part of the glass.
P.S.   sincere thanks Ian, but I do in fact have a 6" extension ( ;)) which goes onto the fexible drive, and which I use to reach the parts that other beers cannot clean.   

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