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When collecting this historical blue it's interesting because you come across pieces
that don't look like there salvageable or there pieces that you look at and say you
can't throw this away because it's just to beautiful of a piece. This is one of the pieces
I found in an attic in a small town in my area that was needed restoration and by looking
at it you can hardly tell where the rest of the restoration occurred but I can show you
some the detail. It's expensive to do but when your looking at a pot this size and the
age of this pot it's well worth doing. Restoration can be expensive this pot was probably around
200 to repair I'm trying to remember but I don't know exactly $200 to repair and when
I went into the attic it was stored in a box and when you opened up the box it was laying
flat on it's side and one side looked perfectly clean the way your looking at it here and
when you turned it over there was hole literally a hole right in the center of this teapot.
So this is what that was repaired you can see a little bit of discoloration just on
the glaze but to look at this pot and turn it around to the other side if you look at
this side really closely with cows and the trees in the house in background with this
young women. And when you turn it around you can see the same pattern it's restored almost to identical
to the front side. Which it takes a professional who knows really knows about this porcelain
and how to restore it so this is a good example of what this should be restored.