From: steve.h1@ntlworld.com   
      
   Need some help here got a pair of Louis Quatorze chairs for restoration   
   which are for want of a better word "painted" in a white substance   
   presumably its a lead based compound, and so far as we know they have never   
   previously been restored in anyway. Trouble is cant shift this white stuff   
   tried all usual strippers and acid bath but to no avail only thing sofar isa   
   scrapping so the question is anyone out there know what the stuff is and   
   also is there a compound/re-agent for it?   
      
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