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Antique furniture restoration melbourne jason snook. Here are are links to all the price lists and order forms referred to on our website. The price range for each type of service requested wholesale repair, rare book conservation, and rebind is listed at the top of the page for each category. Schots is the home emporium you turn to for stunningly crafted home furnishings with personality. They are not intended to take the place of an official estimate, which we will be sending you shortly after receipt of your book. They have established clients locally as well as interstate including places such melbourne victoria, sydney new south wales nsw, adelaide south australia and perth western australia. Book restorations, bookbinding, book repairs sydney nsw. I use only archival materials to restore your volume to as mechanically sound and beautiful a condition possible. Best 9 antique repair restoration in melbourne, fl with.
We do not do thermal binding, perfect binding, comb binding, saddlestitching or binding on a commercial scale. Restoration of damaged books, family bibles, albums and rare books. We do restoration work on books worth several thousand dollars, but. Melbourne book restoration can repair your old or damaged books. The 2020 archives fine books collecting prize submissions for 2020 have now closed.
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