Testimonials

Museums continue to commission me to reproduce the antiquities, which I appreciate, and several, also individual customers, record their appreciation of the good quality of the reproductions.

Many of the approximately 350 items sell, in spasms according to the fashion. I have made about one hundred ‘one-off’ reproductions for specific display, scientific examination, or educational use, which may, or may not, be repeated, but remain available. Three times since last year I have received requests for items that the person has lost. One from USA had been trying for several years and then found reference to me and received a replacement, at present day cost plus postage, but he was happy. Another from UK had an item stolen. The Museum who had sold it to them gave them my address and that person was also happy to get a replacement. The last, 30 May 2008 phoned with such a request for my AR101 pendant which her father had bought her mother when they visited St. Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth in about 1977. Her father died about four years ago, her mother always wore the pendant in memory, and lost it the week previously. They paid for the replacement the next day and received it the following day. Another happy person. On occasion my reproductions are displayed in place of the original, to avoid extra security expenses. It is also possible to display both sides of a coin using a head and a tail reproduction, indicating confidence in the quality of my reproductions.

A Research project in 1972 involved moulding of the back of 16 Bronze British Mirror Series, Published Society of Antiquaries 1976, and in 1974 Research on Bronze Age Razors from 800 to 200 BC resulted in more than 540 silicon Rubber moulds from original antiquities in 17 museums in Scandinavia, used for scientific examination of construction and identified 16 different tool marks, from many different areas. Such is the versatility of silicon rubber that can be examined under a Scanner Electron Microscope to identify such detail, that conveys its properties to Electroforms in the form of reproductions of antiquities.