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Thanks for the advice, and the welcome! :) I'll have a look for some, I don't have a steamer but a small brush to get into the nooks and something to pick at it with should work, right? I doubt any bits would fall off like on the ceiling rose, the mirror frame is quite sturdily moulded...

Antique plaster mirror for restoration.

Yesterday I pulled a mirror out of a skip, it's a mid 19th century rococo style (read:fiddly) piece where the frame is made of moulded plaster. Pretty lucky find, except at some point some fool has painted over the original gilding with several thick coats of magnolia gloss on the front -...