My sister had a clock on her living room wall for about 2 years, she was not happy with it it kept getting yellow. She dusted it alot. I was viisting( she was wacthing me our parents were out of town) and said I would wash it .Guess want , it had paper on the points, boy was she surprasied, it was gold and shiny, I told her I workrd real hard on it. Told her later(next day) want happen.