On Cut-Glass Repairs -- To Repair or Not to Repair Damaged Glass? A Timely Question with No Single (or Simple) Answer

• Introduction

• The Writer's Experience with Glassware in "As-Found" Condition

• Reprint of a Survey Conducted by the American Cut Glass Association (1981)

An example of a poor repair job that should never have been accepted. It will now be difficult for the repairman to re-cut the "repaired" set of teeth on the right because of the loss of glass that has occurred during the initial repair.

Updated 5 Aug 2005