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Norvin

28/11/2005 8:04 PM

Mirror question

I am restoring a old mirror with a oak frame and the mirror needs some
touch up of the "silver nitrate" (?) on the back side and I found out
from local glass shop that this would be very expensive to redo the
mirror. My question, is there any thing on the market that will fix a
little spot here and there on the mirror?


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Gw

Guess who

in reply to Norvin on 28/11/2005 8:04 PM

27/11/2005 6:34 PM

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:04:00 GMT, Norvin <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I am restoring a old mirror with a oak frame and the mirror needs some
>touch up of the "silver nitrate" (?) on the back side and I found out
>from local glass shop that this would be very expensive to redo the
>mirror. My question, is there any thing on the market that will fix a
>little spot here and there on the mirror?

Google is your friend.

E.G. http://www.restoration-advice.org/Pages/mirrors-history.html

LJ

Larry Jaques

in reply to Norvin on 28/11/2005 8:04 PM

28/11/2005 7:02 PM

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:04:00 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Norvin
<[email protected]> quickly quoth:

>I am restoring a old mirror with a oak frame and the mirror needs some
>touch up of the "silver nitrate" (?) on the back side and I found out
>from local glass shop that this would be very expensive to redo the
>mirror. My question, is there any thing on the market that will fix a
>little spot here and there on the mirror?

No, unless you don't care if it matches/looks "repaired", you'll need
to resilver the whole thing. See if you can find "The Mirror Book" by
Jay Newman (or something similar) in your library.


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Norvin

in reply to Norvin on 28/11/2005 8:04 PM

29/11/2005 4:09 AM

Norvin wrote:
> I am restoring a old mirror with a oak frame and the mirror needs some
> touch up of the "silver nitrate" (?) on the back side and I found out
> from local glass shop that this would be very expensive to redo the
> mirror. My question, is there any thing on the market that will fix a
> little spot here and there on the mirror?
It looks like this mirror will retain the appearence of an antique.


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