Crystal Restoration Project Repair Gallery

Waterford Crystal Repair testimonial

Hi Mark,

I wanted you to know the Waterford pieces arrived safely last week.  You have exceeded all of my expectations!  Absolutely outstanding job!  I will be happy to refer friends and associates to your business and wouldn’t hesitate to use your services again.

Gratefully,

Judi Copler

Springboro, OH

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glassware Repair, Waterford Crystal Repair

crystal repair antique sandwich glass oil lamp

Marc, just received the oil lamp back today, wonderful work for such an old piece, just wish it hadn’t been broken, but your work was magnificent, absolutely professional, it can now join it’s other Sandwich Glass Whale Oil Lamp brothers. Truly enjoyed our conversation days ago, and I sincerely wish you and all your family all the best, a most remarkable accomplishment of which you and your wife should be so proud.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glass Restoration, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Pressed Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Oil Lamp Repair, Sandwich Glass Repair

Crystal Repair Antique Cut Glass Cruet

The antique cut glass cruet was missing a stopper. It’s one of four cruets that fit in a sterling ring. With out the stopper the value would be greatly diminished.  I made  new crystal stopper.

crystal repair make need

Tags: Antique Bottle Repair, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Stopper Repair, New Stopper, Perfume Bottle Repair, Remove Broken Stopper

crystal repair antique glass oil lamp

A very old oil lamp the first of his collection and it got broken.  He sent the pieces to be repaired.  I was able to bond the pieces together and fill the areas were  chips were missing.

crystal repair antique glass oil lamp

My customer emailed the question can you repair a broken crystal lamp even if you don’t have all the pieces.  Yes I can repair glass even if you don’t have all the pieces.

crystal repair antique oil lamp after

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glassware Repair, Antique Lamp Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration

crystal repair pressed cut glass table

crystal repair pressed cut glass table before repair

Press glass table broken in many pieces was sent to me from Cambridge Maryland. It had been in the family a long time and they didn’t think any thing could be done. They went to the internet and ask  “can broken cut glass be repaired”.  That is  how they found me. I have never seen a traditional cut glass pattern like this pressed in a glass so large.  The glass top is close to thiryt inches across I would like to see what the base is.

crystal repair pressed glass table top after

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glueing Glass

Crystal Repair Antique Cut Glass Dishes by Fry

The H. C. Fry Glass company made beautiful cut glass . Henry Fry had the biggest and one of the best cutting rooms of the day . The factory was built in 1901 .   The three plates pictured here came for that cutting room in Rochester Penna. They were chipped and needed minor repairs.  Crystal repair on the best of the best is a very rewarding.

antique cut glass by H.C. Fry Glass Company

The saw tooth design is very easy to chip. I used small grinding stones that came from the Hawkes Glass Company in Corning NY to grind out the chips.

crystal repair Fry Glass with chipped saw tooth design

Then with cork , horse hair and felt wheels I polished the cystal back to a brilliant shine.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glassware Repair

Crystal Repair Antique Glass Stopper

A pair of Antique crystal cruets with a very delicate cut pattern were sent to me for repair.  The one crystal bottle was missing apart of the stopper. They sent along the top of the antique crystal stopper but the bottom had broken off and was lost. They also sent along one good antique cut glass cruet that need a stopper and one good crystal stopper.

crystal repair antique glass stopper

crystal repair antique glass stopper new bottomcrystal repair antique glass stopper and new bottom glass

Crystal repair like this requires some glass blowing to make the new parts.
 

crystal repair antique glass stopper replacement stopper

crystal repair replacement stopper

Tags: Antique Bottle Repair, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Antique Glassware Repair, Bottle Repair, Broken Crystal Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Broken Glassware Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Stopper Repair, Glueing Glass, New Stopper, Perfume Bottle Repair, Remove Broken Stopper

Crystal Repair Steuben Pear

crystal repair steuben pear

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Repair, Glassware Repair

antique glass figurine repair

Antique glass repair is made a lot harder when like this piece because they tried to glue it them selves.  They used a silicone glue and there are no known solvents for it .  It took a lot of rubbing and scraping to remove the silicone. Then we were able to repair it.

antique glass repair figurine

antique glass repair after

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Figurine Repair, Glueing Glass, Venetian Murano Glass Repair

antique glass repair

antique glass repair chip bottle

The art deco perfume bottle had very large chips on the sides and front. The antique glass repair restored the look and the value. The antique  glass is very thick and because of that I was able to grind  and polish with out making a hole or changing the look.

Tags: Antique Bottle Repair, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glassware Repair

LaLique Crystal Perfume Bottle Repair

This is the first time I have worked on a LaLique Crystal Bottle like this. Over thirty years of repair I have worked on a lot of LaLique Crystal. There were chips around the stopper holes so I polished then out then etched then to match .

Lalique Crystal perfume bottle repair

Tags: Antique Bottle Repair, Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Broken Glass Glued, Chandelier Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glassware Repair, Glueing Glass, Lalique Crystal Repair, Perfume Bottle Repair

crystal repair cut glass punch bowl

American brilliant cut glass punch bowl and pedistal with minor chips on the saw tooth was sent to me for repair. This bowl stands two feet tall and is a very valuable piece of crystal. It could be a piece cut crystal  made by LIBBY but I look for a signature but wasn’t able to find one. I polished the chips on the teeth and it was a work out because this is a heavy  crystal bowl. The crystal bowl and pedistal just set on one another.

crystal repair cut glass punch bowl

The bowl and pedistal are not conected. There  were chips on the pedistal.

crystal repair cut glass punch bowl and pedistal

crystal repair cut glass punch saw tooth design

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Cut Glass Repair, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Cut Glass Repair

Crystal Repair broken glass figurine

Broken in three pieces and a failed attemp to glue together with silicone is how it came to me. Crystal repair is a lot harder after you get sililone adhesive all over the pieces and sililone adhesive  is the worst to get off. There are no solvents to remove  it .  All you can do is scrap. The antique glass “China Man” is not a valuable glass figurine but holds a memory.

broken glass figurine

repaired crystal figurine

Over the last thirty years of repairing  crystal I know I been able to get more than one guy out of the dog house.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Crystal Figurine Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glueing Glass

crystal repair steuben bottle stopper

Its a small little chip on the bottom of the stopper. Steuben makes the finest crystal in the world but they made colored glass many years ago. This is one of the old ” colored glass”  Steuben pieces. They are very valuable so a small chip is well worth repairing. The repair is simple just grind the stopper down . The important part is to match the same grit size so the frosting on the glass is the right . I have been a crystal repair man for thirty years and I love glass. I get crystal sent to me from around the world and I very lucky to be able to repair so many nice pieces of glass. 

Repair crystal stopper for steuben bottle

Shown above is the stopper before repair.

Repaired crystal spopper

The old Steuben glass is very valuable and very beautiful. Its one  of my favorite glasses to work on.

Tags: Antique Crystal repair, Antique Glass Repair, Bottle Repair, Chip Repair, Chipped Crystal Repair, Crystal Repair, Crystal Restoration, Glass Repair, Glassware Repair, Perfume Bottle Repair, Stuck Stopper, Waterford Crystal Repair