How do you freshen up these metal details? Assuming it's brass?

A brass-like metal fireplace door with ornate white ceramic surround, showing tarnish and wear. Antique brass detail on a white stove, partially tarnished, with intricate border decoration and small metal doors.
 
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Jorel03
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Witch's Copper Polish
 
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Polish and cloths.
 
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Sounds strange perhaps, but you can rub them with ketchup.
However, unpolished brass quite quickly returns to its natural patina. So the best thing is probably to reconcile with the fact that this is how they "should" look.
 
C cpalm said:
Sounds strange maybe, but you can polish them with ketchup.
However, unvarnished brass quickly reverts to its natural patina. So the best is probably to come to terms with that this is how they "should" look.
They look awful, what should we do?
 
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Rövolution Rövolution said:
Look terrible, what should we do?
You've received good advice, but, as mentioned, if you think that looks terrible, you'll either have to prepare for regular cleaning or replace the tiled stoves with something else. That's simply how they look after a while.
 
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The first image looks like the gaps could be kept much shinier with a little effort. But it's just a matter of polishing and seeing what happens in the long run.
 
Rövolution Rövolution said:
They look terrible, what should we do?
Polish them
 
Autosol is a "good", effective metal polish. Available at Jula, among other places.
 
The doors are probably the same vintage as the tiled stove, so then it's "patina".

It's probably easy to polish up the worst of it, maybe almost like new, polish is available in the store (but don't use steel wool or anything else that scratches).
Wasn't it "back in the day" that people often had employed domestic staff or a "housewife" who took care of such things weekly as needed? Or just as needed.
 
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