Mills 5c Skyscraper

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Mills 5c Skyscraper

Postby atac » Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:12 pm

Hi several months ago I bought a Mills 5c Skyscraper -- after I really got to looking at it, omg, not only was the outside spray painted gold, the inside was as well. I listed it for sale on this forum to recoup my investment, but without any takers, my pal Rick Hector and I tackled the restoration a few weeks ago. We found the paint had underlayers so it took a lot of paint stripper to get to the base. We replated the gooseneck coin head, the backing, the back lip. handle hub and back bar. The castings were polished and repainted by hand. NOTE--this machine was originally blue on the bottom so we elected to repaint it like it was instead of red like many we've seen. Here it is, I thought I would share the before/after...
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