I know for a fact from personal experience that items advertised as "antique" "vintage" or "imported from European antique dealers" etc can be modern reproductions. I know that from fact since I have seen a...
A little information about your concrete statuary. I have sold concrete garden statuary for over 7 years and know how to protect your concrete statuary from the weather. Stress cracks are normal for concrete...
The natural weathering of copper is the result of a corrosive attack of airborne sulfur compound that leads to gradual change of surface color. Salt, moisture and sunlight affect the final color as does...
Peacocks are fun, fabulous, and gorgeous. Decorating your garden or yard in peacock theme is unique and beautiful. Lighted animated peacocks move their feathers back and forth with mini lights. It is year...
This statue is very nice eexcept that the manufacturer doesn't mention that it comes in three separate pieces. (The gazing ball, the wings, and the base) I had to glue mine together because it was just not...
This is a special guide for how to make those extremely stylish pogoda shaped hedges. You see here in this illustration the method and to follow the pattern is easy. There is a lower level important as it is...
WHAT IS MARBLE?Marble is a metamorphic rock resulting from regional or rarely contact metamorphism of sedimentary carbonate rocks, either limestone or dolomite rock, or metamorphism of older marble. This...
WHAT IS GRANITE?Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite has a medium to coarse texture, occasionally with some individual crystals larger than the ground-mass...
WHAT IS SANDSTONE?Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the...
WHAT IS TRAVERTINE?When carbon dioxide-rich water percolates through rocks in limestone areas, the water dissolves the limestone (typical karst process) and becomes saturated with it. When the environment the...