Restoration Specialist Gifts

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

Straightening up.

Under New Mismanagement

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

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

Antiques, Furniture Stripping, Stripping.

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

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

IRMA Hurricane Recovery in Cuba

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

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

'Rats, I don't think we'll ever get this thing going: It's flooded again...'

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

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

Inventor of the Tudor spirit-level

"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?"

"Look on the bright side – the Rogaine worked!"

"We're going to have a post-flood economy to deal with."

Emeril John Lagassé III caricature

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

'It's a British car. Needs braces.'

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."

Restored antique carriage in A.D. 2500

Cleaner cleaning up the paintings in a gallery.

Here's your problem. You have an iPod.

"We can have your drone here fixed in a day or. . . if it sits still."

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

'Funny, it usually works OK after you've given it a hefty kick.'

Salvage Hunters

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

Leaning Tower of Pisa

Japan-Reconstruction

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

Painting Mona Lisa.

The Death of Chatterton - After Restoration