One of the original features in my place is a series of servants' bells in the main room that sound in the kitchen. Naturally not a feature that impresses SWMBO, and they've never worked in the sense that the bell might sound but it never seems to result in a fresh beer ;-( Anyway...the pushes are (very old) bakelite, by the look of it and they're covered in geological layers of emulsion paint, which could do with stripping off, especially as one has been hanging loose since the living room was replastered, so needs to be opened and screwed back onto the wall.
I'm sort of resigned to this being a matter of some very careful scraping (which could be a long job), so I thought I'd see if anyone had any bright ideas for getting this off more easily and less (potentially) destructively. Any suggestions chaps? (Which includes chapesses, naturally!)