RESTORATIONS BY AIELLO

ANTIQUE RESTORATIONS

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About Us

Ron and Judy Aiello

After serving 4 years in the United States Marine Corps and receiving an honorable discharge in 1968, I acquired a job with

the Princeton Art Gallery and Auction House as head buyer and Auction manager.

After a year with Princeton Art Gallery I decided that I wanted to work with my hands and become more creative.

I then trained to be a dental technician and and eventually to open my own Dental Prosthetics Company.

This profession gave me the satisfaction of working with my hands but did not give me the creative satisfaction that

I was looking for.

One day the owner of Princeton Art gallery came to me and asked if I would be able to repair a pitcher from a bowl and pitcher set.

Of course I like a challenge and said I would give it a try.

After purchasing a few supplies and also using some of the dental products that I was using on a daily basis in my busines, I was

able to restore the pitcher to near perfection.

At that moment I knew exactly what I wanted to do; I wanted to become a restorer of fine porcelain and china.

I contacted a number of restorers in New York City and Philadelphia to see if they would train me and I received
a negative response. I guess they were afraid to give away their secrets of restoring.

So I took matters into my own hands, and started to read a number of books on restorations of china and porcelain.

I then asked my wife Judy, who had an art background to teach me the use of colors and painting. I had taken some

art courses in school but that was not enough for what I was about to do.

We then found a company that sold a china restoration kit which included adhesives, colors and glaze. It wasn't much

of a kit, but it was a start.

We then started to look around for other items that would be useful in restoring such as air brushes, better art brushes,

air compressors, new adhesives and colors.

Then we started to practice and practice. In 1976 when we felt that we were good enough to start restoring professionally,

we opened a small restorations studio in downtown historic Burlington City, New Jersey. As our business continued to

grow we relocated our studio to our current location in Burlington Township, New Jersey.

Our expertise is in the following types of ware: china, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, china and bisque dolls and objets d"art.

The types of ware that we retore are many, such as Royal Doulton, Lladro, Hummels, David Winter Cottages, Dept 56, Roseville,

Wedgwood, Lenox, Stangl, Meissen, Dresden, Moorcroft, Royal Worster, Columbian Ware, Coalport and Serves, just to name a few.

We restore for collectors, dealers, museums, doll hospitals, moving companies and china and procelain manufacturers.

Over the years we have had the honor of restoring some of the rarest Doulton ware, from figurines, Character Jugs, Flambe,

Stoneware, Burslem and Lambeth.

After all these years, my wife Judy and I still find it very exciting to be able to take a damaged piece of art ware and to make

it look new again.

Ronald L Aiello and Judy G. Aiello