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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 11744408, member: 4654&quot;]TBH the only reason I started restoring in the first place was because the restorer I picked to restore my ebony writing slope didn&#039;t do a good job and he was so expensive it wasn&#039;t worth it. I do have a 3 or 4 slopes but they are very different to yours this is why your slope didn&#039;t jump out at me in the way it should have, I&#039;m not really a writing slope collector, there is one on here but I forget their name.&nbsp; I would expect your slope to fetch around £2000 in the UK fully restored, what it would make in the US or what you paid I don&#039;t know, it has to be worth restoring before you start unless you want to indulge in a charitable endeavor. I&#039;m sure you will be able to find a restorer local to you, I don&#039;t know any restorers in the US I would trust, all I&#039;ve seen is the US Youtube restorers, there is only a certain amount I can take watching them ruin fine antiques before I switch off. You almost need a Boulle restorer, an easy job for them and maybe&nbsp; a hard job for a normal US antique restorer, in the UK a brass fretwork job like this wouldn&#039;t be out of the normal. Really what I&#039;m trying to say is this is a slope of such quality you shouldn&#039;t use it to learn restoring on, it&#039;s only after years of practice I will have the nerve to take on valuable antiques like this. Here is a video of a slope being restored, he also has a video of missing brass on a Boulle cabinet being replaced to show the process [MEDIA=youtube]5zCHvHAKbyQ[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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