Articles on: Antique Stonework
By Silas Finch One of the biggest crazes in antique collecting in recent years has been an explosion of interest in 18th and 19th century garden sculpture. While many people would love to collect statuary, it is simply far too expensive for most people. Perhaps to compensate, many collectors turned to stonework......................... By Silas Finch Stonework seems eternal to human eyes and our short life span but it is not. Stone statuary must contend with forces of nature, wind and rain, it must withstand frost and thawing.... By Silas Finch Different types of stone require different strengths of cleaning products and will put up with different levels of strong-arming. Frail limestone can crumble before your very eyes if abused by a steel brush but granite will laugh off the hardest scrubbing.  |
