How do you remove black marks from patent items?

[helips]

Ive got some cream patent shoes that I wear a lot (I am not Kate Middleton btw!) and they have some black marks on them. Does anyone have any tips on how to remove these marks? TIA!

[Showtime]

Traditionally, milk was used to clean patent leather, but not tried it myself.

[LeMousquetaireAnonyme]

transparent shoe polish, it also removes sticky stuffs from sticky tape from almost anything. I would guess milk could do it on patent because of the fat... [wondering]

[starjules]

I used to run a shoe shop, we used a bog standard pencil eraser!

[helips]

Great, i'll try milk and eraser as I have both of those things in the house! Will report back...

[starjules]

How did you get on helips?

[helips]

mmmm, no joy, so will purchase some shoe polish and see if that does the trick!