repairing a split

[mark yundt]

Here is a piece I repaired for a client. It's from the mid 19th century,,carved in pine of General Grant. I don't have the step by step on this,,but I used pine to repair it. Splits never completely disappear but it looks better than it did. It's 6 1/2 inches tall. I also freshened up the paint and face a bit.

As they always say on the Antiques Roadshow,," ,,now if you got this repaired it would be worth,,,,"

This piece brought $3500.00 at Sothebys

[tucker1931]

Mark, you did a great repair on that carving. WOW, in the pix you can't even see it. I'll bet you were a little bit apprehensive on even touching it, being as it's worth so much.
Cliff

[Lynn O. Doughty]

Nice repair but what they actually say on that Antique show is "If you hadn't had it repaired it would be worth.......!" Almost every Roadshow I've seen has a story about an antique that was untimately devalued by repair or refinishing.

[mark yundt]

Thanks guys. But actually Lynn refinishing will usually kill the value,but generally they do seem to recommend to have something repaired ( rugs,furniture etc. ) that had some damage.
It can go either way I'm sure,,but usually repairs are favored. And of course if there were no damage,,well the value just takes off.