I encourage you to visit Ageless Vessels, where a priest’s hobby is restoring old chalices.

He uses beautiful gold and other precious metals to restore them.

EXCERPT FROM SITE:

His heart’s desire is to furnish an instrument worthy to give glory to God. It is his dream that this vessel will one day hold the Precious Blood of his Savior. He finds no cost or effort excessive as he creates this vessel destined for the Service of the Altar.

Centuries pass and the vessel is neglected. It tarnishes, it is damaged, and is left on a shelf. Eventually it finds itself disposed of.
But the dream of the artist was that his vessel would serve for the Glory of God – not for a time – forever.

We have taken the task, as a hobby, of finding these lost treasures before they are trashed. We restore them to how that artist created them, and return them to the Altar.