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Topic: Stained glass restoration or destruction of antiquity?  (Read 854 times)
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« on: February 19, 2010, 08:11:27 PM »
Without repeating the title what is your opinion?

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9moWLoF1ecI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9moWLoF1ecI</a>
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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2010, 08:58:11 PM »
I don't see it as either.

A restoration would preserve as much of the original as possible. This was a simple re-leading, with  no effort made to preserve the lead.

Destruction of antiquity would require the original to be a piece of antiquity. From here, it looks like a nice, but very ordinary leaded window. If the window was a valuable work of art, and an antique, what's done here could be described as the destruction of same, but that would not appear to be the case.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2010, 08:26:57 AM »
Quote from: Graham on February 19, 2010, 08:58:11 PM
I don't see it as either.

A restoration would preserve as much of the original as possible. This was a simple re-leading, with  no effort made to preserve the lead.

Destruction of antiquity would require the original to be a piece of antiquity. From here, it looks like a nice, but very ordinary leaded window. If the window was a valuable work of art, and an antique, what's done here could be described as the destruction of same, but that would not appear to be the case.

I don't know... The title of the video uses the word restoration.  Duh
I didn't see tearing apart a panel and stripping the old paint of the sash as preservation of a panel worthy of timed value. It appears to be an English panel from the 1940's or so. Being at least 50 years old qualifies it to be an antique in most definitions. I'll equate this to cleaning a moderately valued silver dollar of it's natural tarnishing. Basically you destroy it's "would be value".  white flag

I went back to watch the slaughter and noticed the re-assembly went wrong where a piece had to be trimmed  confused

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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2010, 02:15:55 PM »
Yep, that's not antiquity.  It's a fairly common window.  It didn't look like it needed to be completely releaded, but if a customer brought it to me and wanted it re-leaded; I would do it.  I wouldn't do a window that was "a valuable work of art," as Graham said.  At some point, when the lead is in bad shape, even valuable works of art have to be releaded.  But I'm not likely to have to face that decision. 

The terms "restoration," "conservation," and "preservation" are confusing.  I think a "restoration" restores something as close as possible to "like new" condition.  "Conservation" and "preservation" have to do with keeping something from degrading and keeping as much as the original as possible.   So I think, technically, this is a restoration.  (But I could be wrong!)

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Ma'am, I do believe you are correct as to the definition of restoration. I admit to mixing those terms up, not just on this occasion, but many times over. I stand corrected.

I still look at it as a simple re-leading, and nothing special about the action or the window.
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2010, 03:29:23 PM »
Quote from: Graham on February 20, 2010, 09:16:30 PM
Ma'am, I do believe you are correct as to the definition of restoration. I admit to mixing those terms up, not just on this occasion, but many times over. I stand corrected.

I still look at it as a simple re-leading, and nothing special about the action or the window.

Yep, it's a simple re-leading.  And I think there is a more "official" definition of restoration, conservation, and preservation; but I don't have time to look it up.
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