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- Follow the next six pictures and see what we end up with.
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- Nozzles pegged and lamp holder stubs fitted.
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- Candle nozzles adapted for new lamp holders
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- Draw wire fitted to pull the power cables through.
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- Alter candle sticks before restoration, part of a set of six
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- They look better after full clean polish and lacquer
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- Osler lantern before restoration.
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- Osler lantern, restored to former glory.
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- Osler lantern suspension bracket.
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- Osler lantern suspension bracket restored.
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- Gold and Silver Chalice in need of TLC.
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- Restored to former glory.
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- Fully restored 12 arm Bronze and Crystal chandelier. Circa early 1940.
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- A cathedral chandelier circa 1940/50. Cleaned, satin polished, lacquered, rewired, new bulb holders fitted.
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- The chandelier looks splendid installed in its new home.
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- Brass and Bronze fender with glazed tile inserts. This will be a stunner when restored, see the results in the following images.
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- Heavily tarnished chandelier parts, they need stripping and polishing.
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- Stripped back to brass, polished, lacquered and rewired.
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- Rebuilt and re fitting the crystal dressings.
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- Customer asks what can we salvage and restore from this box of crystal lamp parts.
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- Two crystal drop bag lamps refurbished from the box of parts.
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- Art Nouveau lamp in a poor state. Can it be restored?
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- Yes it can.
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- Tabernacle from Motherwell Cathedral. The dome badly dented and in a generally poor state.
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- Tabernacle repaired, mirror finish polished and given 4 coats clear lacquer.
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- Vintage crystal and silver plated oil lamp poorly converted to electric. Our job is to restore and fit mains cable through the base.
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- Resin filled base with iron rod supports in the stem.
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- Can we create a cable way through this? Lets see.
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- Cable way successful.
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- Cable entry in side base, also need to lathe turn a vintage style grommet for the drilled hole.
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- Drill through the crystal font. This is a risky task so need to go carefully.
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- Grommet and mains fitted.
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- Refitted font with bulb holder and all works fine as expected.
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- Gilt finial on marble clock case, needs TLC.
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- Looks better now.
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- Now start on the rest of it.
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- Fully cleaned and re gilded, customer totally speechless as the result was way beyond expectation.
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