Decoy paint question?

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wis boz

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My sister-in-law (now decreased), thinking she was doing me a favor repainted one of my dad's 1938 decoys. I would like to remove her paint down to the original. She was an artist and painted on canvas and burlap with oils so I would assume she painted the decoy with that type of paint. How safely can I remove that with out disturbing the original paint and with what?
wis boz
 
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, this is not good bud if she used oils i dont think you can just remove that layer and not hurt the underneath stuff.
 
IT really hard to come back in the first layer. Some time when you remouve the old painting, you remouve too the old one, and you only find the oil into the wood , some time is good too.

The question is what you want to have, you probably lost the value of your dad decoy, do you have other think to lost?

Stef
 
Is the decoy highly collectable? Do you know whether she may have removed the original paint before she repainted it? I always hear of people sanding off the "old nasty" paint and repainting. If it is a highly collectable decoy, I'd get ahold of a proffessional decoy restorer and see what they say. It sounds like it was more than a "working repaint".
 
Thanks Dave:
I might try just a small spot. The bottom still has the original paint and it looks like the paint (original, I think) is checking. Maybe I'd just better hold off.
wis boz
 
Stef:
Thanks for your input. I think I'll hold off doing anything with it. I do have several with the original paint. I've given some of the other decoys to my sisters and to my son and they all have their original paint.
wis boz
 
Lee:
there is original paint on the bottom and it looks like the old paint on the head is checking so I don't think I'll mess with it myself. Those decoys are over 70 years old and of course have many memories. Thanks for your input.
wis boz
 
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