One of the joys of the home office is getting parcels. Usually its art supplies with a catalogue thrown in which makes for a good read. This morning though it was a fed ex box from a european client with two broken stereo cover glasses to be reproduced and a book about his collection. The [...]

It took me two years to work out my technique for the reverse painting on glass for daguerreian passe partout. It began in NYC in 2001 and finally when living in a small village in England in 2003 I worked out a rather elegant solution to solve the main issues; – a sharp paint edge [...]

This is a half plate replacement cover glass that is on its way to the Netherlands Fotomuseum as a sample of my passe partout restoration skills. I can make a very accurate facsimile conforming to the exact size of the original plate housing while maintaining the integrity of the vintage design aesthetic.

This stereo has had a rough life but is still stunning to see in 3D. It is a unusual in that it is a single clad plate rather two. The original cover glass was broken and in 1999 a replacement one was painted and at the same time the owner chemically cleaned the plate. Shortly [...]

This was the last Antquarian case I had in stock, the style that has been surpassed by my Moroccan case style. It was for a former colleagues ninth plate Ambrotype of his great grandfather. The image had been sitting in its broken preserver with mat behind the image and the cover glass directly on top [...]

Originally I started making cases anew after repairing vintage cases. I found it is easier to start from scratch than to try and marry old and new materials. But being a casemaker restorations come with the territory and this recent case came to me with just the lower case tray, the cover long since lost. [...]