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toughest tasks, Jan remembers an 18-inch cut-glass lampshade in a
geometric pattern that came to them in more than 360 pieces. “The
job took us seven months,” she recalled. “We worked on it as often
as we could. I taped the pieces and Wayne repaired as I built the
piece. It was well worth the time and money to the customer because
it was a family heirloom.”
Overall, Wayne said onyx is the most difficult glass to mend. Produced for a short time beginning in 1886, it is layered glass usually found in creamy white, accented with metal luster that has been trapped between two layers. It becomes brittle and that makes it difficult to repair. “Most of our customers are concerned about the sentimental value of the item and not how much it’s worth. Only about five percent of our customers are antique dealers,” Jan said.
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During the peak glass-collecting years of the late 1980s and early
1990s, the energetic couple repaired as many as 10,000 pieces of
glass each year. The number of repairs in 2006 totaled about 6,000.
However, the number of extremely complex repairs has grown significantly
as word of Montano’s skills has spread.
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