Historic Building Restorer Mugs

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

'It's genuine 17th century satsuma - and the pair would have been worth ?14,000.'

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

'We finished all the repairs in the cafeteria kitchen this morning, but the food still tastes lousy.'

"Oh it's not haunted, it's just really old and nothing works."

'It was restored just last year, and changed from an abstract painting to a landscape.'

'I think I've finally found a fixer-upper in your price range.'

"Someday, son, all this will be yours. It'll be under water, but still ..."

Fumes from furniture

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

'Great to see the ol' museum is finally getting a face-lift.' An old building getting a medical face-lift

"You're unlikely to find anyplace on the market that is truly impregnable."

'And now, concerning the special collection...'

For sale sign: 'Unique 16th Century cottage. Similar properties wanted.'

Architects and Engineers - Restoration of old Buildings.

Title page from 'The Scouring of the White Horse'.

Scot country dancing,

Alderman shocked at a proposal to pull down Temple Bar

'They did a great job in restoring all the 19th century details, but this confounded dress code...'

"He's a hunter-gatherer-tinkerer-fixer-upper-restorer-reseller."

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

Under New Mismanagement

Cleaner cleaning up the paintings in a gallery.

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

Restored antique carriage in A.D. 2500

Museum. It's great we got this job moving statues here at the museum. CRASH! That was no time to make a joke about a "piece of art."

They're nice, but they lack the charm of an older home

Man defaces a painting to make it fit above his fireplace.

Salvage Hunters

"I told you she'd had some work done."

Leaning Tower of Pisa

"It's just a hunch, but you may have the power set too high on your pressure washer."

"We had an expert restore all the original shag carpeting."

Painting Mona Lisa.

The Death of Chatterton - After Restoration