Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Centreville Museum Restorations

Some, if not all, of these restored plates will be on view at the private Centreville Museum which is becoming (or has become) a huge success.  The CS two-piece required that the wreath be matched to the tongue.  The Script NY only needed the keeper bar straightened.  The Flaming Bomb was applied to the plate.  The clipped corner (buried under the NY) was given a ground dug look as it was splitting in two.  The gutter back frame  buckle was bent and distorted into a parallelogram and was missing the center bar. It was a rough one now straightened and completed.  A nice collection indeed.