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LaLique Crystal Repair Project Repair Gallery

LaLique Crystal Repair Project Repair Gallery

CRYSTAL REPAIR CHIPPED VASE LALIQUE

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 Posted in Chipped Glass Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, LaLique Crystal Repair, Uncategorized | Comments Off on CRYSTAL REPAIR CHIPPED VASE LALIQUE

The beautiful LaLique vase had a large chip in the base.

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Lalique Crystal Repair cat with chipped ear

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Glass Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, LaLique Crystal Repair | 1 Comment »

The Lalique Crystal cat had a small chip on its ear.  Lalique has a frosted acid etched finish .  The chip really show because it is clear glass.

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CRYSTAL REPAIR CHIPPED ANTIQUE GLASS DECANTER

Sunday, January 13th, 2013 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Broken Decanter Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on CRYSTAL REPAIR CHIPPED ANTIQUE GLASS DECANTER

There was a large chip and crack in the neck of the Lalique Crystal decanter.

Lalique Decanter broken neck

 

crystal repair new neck

 

Crystal repair flame polish

 

 

 

 

new neck

 

LaLique Crystal Decanter Restoration

 

Crystal Repair LaLique Crystal

 

Crystal Restoration Decanter

 

 

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Crystal repair Lalique broken and chipped glass

Sunday, November 25th, 2012 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Figurine, Glass Sculpture Repair, Glueings, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on Crystal repair Lalique broken and chipped glass

The  broken Lalique Crystal  statue was a present give to a customer in his eighties. He received it  when he was a young man.  It holds  great sentimental value and he wanted to repair it rather than replace it.  Some one tried to repair it. It was covered in glue and a number of large pieces were missing. I will need to recreate the missing piece.  

 

I use a foot from a broken Lalique compote to make the block .

 

Shaping the block to  form legs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The final step is to etch the glass to match.  If you look close there is a small line were it was  glued.

 

 

 

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Crystal Repair Antique Glass with chipped foot

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on Crystal Repair Antique Glass with chipped foot

The antique  Lalique  Crystal cigarette  jar was broken years ago.  The foot had a very large chip out of it.  The chip was to large to be ground out so replacement  was the only option. Over the years I have saved many pieces of glass. My basement is like a junk yard of glass.   I found a Lalique Crystal foot in my glass junk yard.

 

Chipped Lalique Crystal Foot

The chipped glass jar was gram’s and sat on the coffee table for many years .  The antique glass jar held cigarettes back in the day when every one smoked.

 

Lalique jar and new crystal foot

I cut off the damaged foot and prepared new foot.

 

Signed Lalique foot for repair

Bond the new foot to old crystal jar.

 

Lalique Crystal Lion Head Cigarette Jar Restoration

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Chipped crystal glassware repair wine glass water glass

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Baccarat Crystal Repair, Broken Stem, Chipped Glassware, Chipped Stemware, Crystal Repair Pictures, LaLique Crystal Repair, Steuben Crystal Repair | Comments Off on Chipped crystal glassware repair wine glass water glass

Chipped wine glasses ,chipped water glasses ,chipped rock glasses, champagne  glasses and chipped cordial glasses can be ground and polished to look like new.  Crystal glassware is hand made and each glass is a little different size.  Stemware from the major manufactures can be very expensive and some times the patterns have been retired so repairing is the only option.

 

crystal stemware repair

 

Waterford Crystal , Baccarat Crystal  , Lalique Crystal  , Steuben Crystal , Orrefors  Crystal , Tiffin , Fostoria , Kosta Boda, Cambridge, Stuard, Hawkes Crystal, Daum Crystal, I have repaired them all.

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Antique Glass Repair LaLique Crystal Bird Bowl

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 Posted in Antique Glass Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on Antique Glass Repair LaLique Crystal Bird Bowl

The bowl had a lot of scratches on the bottom and the bird had chips on its beak and tail .    I reshaped the head and beak .  Then matched the very fine etched finish.  The bottom with all the scratches and ware marks was hard to polish with out removing the signature.

 

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LaLique Crystal repair and restoration chipped or broken

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Glass Repair, Glass Sculpture Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on LaLique Crystal repair and restoration chipped or broken

This LaLique Crystal broken Base

LaLique Crystal broken Base

This  LaLique Crystal piece was sent to me from Florida for restoration.  The crystal base had a large chip broken off the corner.  The piece that broke off had been lost many years ago so bonding the chip back one was not an option.

Repaired LaLique Crystal sculpture

Repaired LaLique Crystal sculpture

By removing the entire base and making a replacement I was able to restore this glass .

Crystal Resotation LaLIque

Crystal Resotation LaLIque

The LaLique Rams are ready to go back on diplay.

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LaLique crystal repair broken glass ring

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 Posted in All Repair Projects, Crystal Repair Pictures, LaLique Crystal Repair | 2 Comments »

This beautiful LaLique  crystal ring got broken.  The hard part of this repair was the fact they didn’t have any of the missing pieces. So I had to create the glass piece to fit what was left.

LaLique Crystal Ring Beore

LaLique Crystal Ring Beore

Broken and a large chip is missing.

LaLique crystal  ring cut and fit replacement piece

LaLique crystal ring cut and fit replacement piece

New glass fit on to ring

New glass fit on to ring

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LaLique Crystal repair chipped table leg

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 Posted in All Repair Projects, LaLique Crystal Repair | 1 Comment »

Two legs of a LaLique Table bumped together while cleaning. The one leg got the worst of it . 

LaLique crystal repair big chip

LaLique crystal repair big chip

 

crystal repair lalique table leg

crystal repair lalique table leg

Lalique Crystal repair polish chip

Lalique Crystal repair polish chip

With the glass from a LaLique Wine glass I  made a new crystal nub.

LaLique Crystal repair new part

LaLique Crystal repair new part

LaLique crystal leg repair with new nub

LaLique crystal leg repair with new nub

 

LaLique crystal after repair

LaLique crystal after repair

LaLique Crystal Perfume Bottle Repair

Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Posted in All Repair Projects, Antique Glass Repair, Chipped Glass Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, Etched Glass, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on 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

Lalique Crystal perfume bottle repair

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LaLique Crystal Repair

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glass Repair, Crystal Repair Pictures, Glass Sculpture Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on LaLique Crystal Repair

Completed repairs on LaLique Horse Head. I was also able to remove scratches from the bottom.

Lalique Sculpture

Lalique Sculpture

Large crystal horse head

Large crystal horse head

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Crystal Repair Lalique Horse Head

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 Posted in All Repair Projects, Glass Sculpture Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | 1 Comment »

This large glass sculpture was damaged when an earth quake knocked prisms off of a chandelier onto the sculpture below. This very large, very expensive, LaLique Crystal Horse Head sustained many small chips from each of the falling prisms. Crystal repair on such a heavy piece of glass over such a large area can be tricky, but the sculpture’s appearance, and it’s value were completely restored.

LaLique Horse Head

LaLique Horse Head

First Grind (remove more than thirty dings)

First Grind (remove more than thirty dings

More than thirty chips had to be removed from this very expensive LaLique Crystal Sculpture.

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Crystal Repair LaLique Cat Chipped Crystal Ear

Sunday, December 14th, 2008 Posted in All Repair Projects, Chipped Glass Repair, LaLique Crystal Repair | Comments Off on Crystal Repair LaLique Cat Chipped Crystal Ear

Careless cleaning caused a chip on the ear of this LaLique Crystal Cat . Chipped Crystal can be ground and polish to look like new but when its Lalique after you remove the chip matching the etched finish is the challenge .

Crystal Repair  LaLique Cat Chipped Ear

Crystal Repair LaLique Cat Chipped Ear

 

LaLique Crystal Repair Chipped Ear

LaLique Crystal Repair Chipped Ear

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