There was a gentleman at York that sold a homemade product called "RestoresIt". It came in a brown bottle. It must have contained some bee's wax or something because when you shook the bottle to mix up again it had a milky / yellowish color. This was the best product hands down for cleaning and restoring the original paint finish and color.
This was especially good on tinplate.
I do know that the original formula could not be shipped via mail due to its contents. The original inventor I believe passed away and his nephew(?) reconstituted the formula and began selling it again.
When a friend of mine would travel to York, I'd ask him to pickup a bottle for me to bring back.
However, since I haven't traveled to York in several years, I do not know if this product is even available any longer.
I still have a portion of the original and a full bottle of the new formula left.
All I can say is that it worked wonders.
