RESTORATION SERVICES
Through its international network of restoration experts and antique dealers the Guild can restore a range of antiques. Items include:
- All furniture restoration, french polishing, turning, inlay and cabinet making
- All leathering done, including desk tops, with gilt tooling
- Book repairs, re-binding etc, marbled endpapers
- Brass and mother-of-pearl inlay
- Bronzes, Spelter and other metal figures
- Brushes rebristled and replacement combs in silver mounts
- Cane and rush seating including bergere work
- Ceramic restoration - pottery, porcelain and gilding
- Clocks, watches and barometers, serviced, cleaned and restored
- Dolls - restringing, repair of china heads, replacement eyes, hair, etc.
- Enamelling of spoons, cufflinks, mirrors etc
- Engraving on silver, plus removal of same
- Fans restored
- Glass repairs including regrinding rims and bases
- In situ restoration including panelling, staircases, timbers
- Ivory, tortoiseshell and nacre (mother-of-pearl) repairs
- Jewellery, ring sizing, stones replaced, new shanks, safety chains & general repairs
- Lamps rewired and glass shades supplied
- Mirrors resilvered or replaced, including bevels
- Model boats and ships, re-rigging and restoration
- Musical boxes
- Paintings - oils on canvas or board, watercolours, prints, etchings & engravings
- Picture frames repaired and restored
- Silver and silver plate, replating and repairs, new hinges, handles & knobs, & tops
- Specialist re-framing on conservation board of samplers, silk pictures etc.
- Toys, including teddy bears, rocking horses, mechanical toys
- Various metalware repaired, welded, i.e. brass, pewter, lead, cast iron, copper
- Woodcarving and guilding
- Writing slopes and boxes repaired, ink bottles supplied, releathered
- Valuations supplied for probate and insurance