Care and Repair

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If you're a book collector, taking good care of them is one way to be sure they keep their values.

We all can't have near-mint antiques and collectibles, but we can learn the best ways to take care and repair our treasures. If you're buying to sell or buying to keep, these articles will help your make your stuff the best it can be.

What's your best tips for cleaning your collectible stuff?

Do you have a piece of Boehm Porcelain that needs help? Go to the source to get the help or restoration needed for your porcelain pieces.

Restoration services for tin toys, with pictorial index of how it's done.

Tips on Spring Cleaning Your Collectibles

Learn how to clean those vintage tin toys..

A special series by Harry Rinker dealing with damages caused by floods, storms and other water damage. Rinker says "The key is to prepare for disaster before it happens, not after it occurs."

Joan Riba's Repair & Restoration for pottery pieces. Before and after pieces are shown.

Pottery restoration and repair has always seemed like magic to the casual collector. How can someone take a broken, shattered piece of pottery, and make it look like new again? Joan Riba of shares some of her restoration and repair experience with cookie jar and pottery collectors in this article originally written in June 1998..

They provide "invisible" and museum quality restoration and conservation services for arts, antiques, antiquities, and collectibles. Golbergs' works with porcelain, china, paintings, ivory, stone, enamel, wood and other materials

Information about locks, vintages items and reproduction hardware.

Supplies for restoration and repairs.

FAQs About Insuring your Valuables

Restoration and repair has always seemed like magic to the casual collector. How can someone take a broken, shattered piece of pottery, then make it look like new again?

You've got the right storage boxes and ready to pack up your precious antiques and collectibles, but what else do you need?

The Before and After pictures of pottery repairs and restoration

You don't have to live in an earthquake prone area to love Trevco's Quakehold. With hundreds of breakables around the house, it doesn't always take an earthquake to shake them up. A slammed door, an accidental bump or a too vigorous dusting can cause a treasure to fall off the shelves.

Warning, Proceed at your own risk!

This information would be good for any type of tin collectible! Be sure to explore the rest of this excellent web site on Robots!

Should You Sell Your Gold Jewelry?

It's not over when the sold sign goes up on your listing.

What are these spots on a pottery piece of Little Red Riding Hood.

Learn the best way to take care your glass ornaments, how to store and showcase your fragile glass.

Connie Porcher shares her tips on taking care of those fragile antique and glass ornaments.

Pepper spots or black spots on your cookie jar and pottery? What causes them?