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Missing foot.

Frame sanded and a compo side scroll added.

Wooden foot added.

Gilded in 23.75ct gold leaf and aged.

Paint removed from the frame and wooden foot gessoed.

Luna with the finished mirror.

Salvage Hunters The Restorers

Season 2 Episode 9

Restoration of a large over mantle mirror.

Large over mantle mirror after restoration.

Large over mantle mirror before restoration.

Large over mantle mirror around 1850 with mercury mirror plate. The frame fell into 4 pieces when the backboard and mirror were removed.

This frame had a lot of bad repair in the past. Not only to the decoration but to the wooden under frame as well. There were holes from wire at the top that would have held a top decoration which was missing, except for the droppers coming down onto the mirror.

Mostly covered in gold paint which had oxidised and turned brown.

Frame before restoration.

After removing the bad wood repairs and attaching pieces of original compo decoration which had fallen off.

Before restoration showing some of the bad old 'restoration'.

Gessoed the new wood and background ready for the new compo decoration.

After removing the gold paint and the bad decoration repairs.

Water gilded in 23.75ct gold leaf and burnished then oil gilded in 23.5ct gold leaf and aged.

Frame before restoration missing the top decoration.

New compo cartouche and bay leaf top to replase missing top decoration.

Water gilded in 23.75ct gold leaf and burnished then oil gilded in 23.5ct gold leaf and aged.

Before restoration, bottom right hand side, missing foot and side scroll.

Replaced foot and wooden back of side scroll, gessoed and sanded. New compo side scroll made up of two pieces from different moulds to match what was left of the original left hand side scroll.

Water gilded in 23.75ct gold leaf and burnished then oil gilded in 23.5ct gold leaf and aged.

Big pile of bad repair removed from the mirror.

Underneath of a piece of bad repair made up of matches (with the heads still on!) and plaster