This bird had badly painted legs and head which had to be stripped off to get back to the real skin. These birds in life have a very deep pink head and also ugly eye warts as you can see in the header picture. Mine also has some feather loss and some very dodgy glitter spray to be removed. Obviously an over zealous person let loose with the spray can. :0( In most cases I wouldn't recommend to anyone to completely over restore an antique, but, as this is for my own personal collection I have no qualms about it. I like to think my bird is having some cosmetic surgery to turn him from an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. :0)