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Art Deco style where dark trace line with limited shading and lead cames form a coordinated design.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: 1957
Location: Christ the King Church, Worcester, MA.
Artist Info: Raphael Lardeur of France.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin

Intact leads from memorial in opalescent glass to Phillips Brooks, rector of Trinity Church, Boston.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: ca. 1900
Location: Groton School, MA.
Artist Info: Sarah Wyman Whitman, Boston.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin

Angel, shwoing mending by technique of edge-gluing for cracks in lute and wings.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: ca. 1450
Location: Walker Art Gallery, Birmingham, England.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin

Detail of windown showing slightly deterioated paint: Such paint can be easily damaged by poor cleaning procedures. Foliate design.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: 1859
Location: St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, MI.
Artist Info: Henry Sharp of New York.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin

Aesthetic-style window.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: 1877
Location: The Barron Center (now arts center), Woodbridge, NJ.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin

It is far better ot leave small residue of accumulated dirt than to risk damaging the surface of the glass. Detail of bird.

Title of Piece: Stained Glass Restoration
Date of Creation: 1877
Location: The Barron Library (now arts center), Woodbridge, NJ.
Photographer Info: Virginia Raguin