Removing adhesive from pottery

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framinzfun

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A customer brought in an older (30's) piece of pottery to be framed. It is unglazed but fired, and the dealer the customer bought it from put a price sticker on it that left an adhesive residue. My question is... can this be removed without discolorint the pottery? I was thinking something like Undo, since it dries so quick, I thought it wouldn't have time to soak into the pottery... Any ideas?
 
First, find out if the ceramic is absorbent by dabbing a little water on a spot near the glue. If the water does not soak in, you can take the glue off with anything you normally use on glass, undo, unseal, lighter fluid, alcohol.

If the water soaks in, you have a different problem.
Solvents would evaporate out if they soaked in, the problem is that the adhesive may soak in along with them. Try pulling the glue off with either a gummy ATG remover, or a piece of tape first.
If that doesn't work, try rubbing alcohol. Dab small amounts on the glue, then immediately dab it off with a cotton cloth.
 
A dab of any dishwashing soap works safely and instantally on removing glue residue from glass and any or any hard surface.
Bill
 
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