Restoring the Beauty of Antique, Vintage and Modern Brass

At Antique Metals, we can bring old brass pieces back to life. Whether it’s an heirloom from your grandparents or a special vintage find, I know how to restore and repair brass so it shines like new again or repair and still maintain its aged look without losing its unique charm.

What We Do

Brass Restoration: We carefully clean and repair your brass items to bring back their original beauty.
Brass Repair: Got a broken or damaged piece? We’ll fix it up with care and precision.
Brass Polishing: We’ll polish your brass to a shine, bringing out its natural glow.

How We Restore Your Brass

Care and Attention Every Step of the Way

Our process starts with a deep clean to remove years of grime. Next, we fix any breaks, dents, or wear and tear. Finally, we give your brass a beautiful polish that highlights its character without losing that antique feel.

Brass Repair Services

Fixing What Time Has Worn

Whether it’s a broken handle, a cracked piece, or just years of wear, we’ll carefully repair your brass item so it’s as good as new—but with all the history still intact.

Polishing Your Brass

Shiny, But Still Classic

We use gentle, expert polishing techniques to bring out the shine in your brass, without making it look too modern. Just the right balance of sparkle and vintage charm!

 

Below you will find an array of different examples of Brass objects that have been repaired and restored. In the polishing section you will find some more examples of polished brass items.

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Below is a brass lantern which needed a new lease of life. Some finials needed to be cast as they were missing. A hanging 3 branch lighting interior was made. It was all polished and lacquer with 2 panes of glass replaced.

 

Brass lantern before restorationBrass lantern after restoration

 

This Church lecturn had started to lean, one of the column castings had broken. It was taken apart and repaired, the whole lecturn was then polished.

Lecturn Before Lecturn after

 

This arts and crafts style fire fender needed polishing and a few repairs.

Fire fender before restorationFire fender after restoration

 

The horse of this Chinese brass statue had 3 of its feet broken and some of the decorative stones missing. We silver soldered the feet back on, fitted new stones and polished.

chinese Brass StatueChinese Brass Statue

 

Below are items from a front door which we cleaned, polished and lacquered. Why buy new when the old ones can be recycled and cleaned up has new.

brass door furniture recycled for use again

 

This is one of a number of mounts from a bookcase which required the ormolu cleaning and the gilding re-applied to damaged areas.

lion mount before cleaning and gildinglion mount after cleaning and gilding

 

This is a brass table top which needed polishing and lacquering.

Brass table top before polishing and lacqueringBrass table top after polishing and   lacquering