Summary for emmy corrosion and flaking Discussion
Emmy corrosion and flaking is the concern here: the owner of a 2019 regional Emmy says the award is rarely handled, dusted only with a feather duster or lens cloth, and has started to corrode or flake while similar awards from the same year have not. The thread excerpt only includes the question, so no diagnosis or fix is given in the source text. The key issue is that the damage is happening despite limited handling, and the asker notes that another Emmy from the same period is kept in a busy office and does not show the same problem. Because no answers are present in the excerpt, there is no named advice to attribute and no confirmed cause or remedy to report.
Q. I have an Emmy (just a regional one) that I won in 2019. It seems to be corroding or flaking. I don’t handle it very often. Methods for cleaning it is a feather duster or a lens/glasses cloth, though I admit I probably forget to clean too much.
Over the last couple of years, it has begun to corrode or flake and I’m not sure why. My friends who have won an Emmy around the same time (even in the same nomination/year) don’t have this problem and one of them keeps the Emmy at our main work office, so it gets handled a lot.
Is there anything I’m doing wrong here that’s causing this and is there a way to fix this?
Thanks!
Kris Hanson
– San Diego, California
April 7, 2025
A. Try to find professional metals conservator in San Diego area
www.culturalheritage.org/about-conservation/find-a-conservator
Hope it helps and good luck!
Goran Budija
– Cerovski vrh Croatia
May 5, 2025