We were overwhelmed with the quality of the job you had undertaken on the Chinese junk. It far surpassed our expectations and we will be recommending you to friends. My wife’s mother and brother came today for my mother in laws birthday. Both of them remember the junk in its previous distressed state and were impressed with the restoration.
The back story to the junk was that my wife’s grandfather was an army chaplain. In the late 1920’s he was posted to China. He purchased the junk whilst in China and brought it back to the UK in 1928. The boat had quite a stormy life including being sailed on the sea in Egypt by my wife’s grandmother when she was in Egypt with her husband and my mother in law during the second world war.
I first remember the boat in the 1970s on the front room mantle shelf of my in law’s house. At this point it was starting to show its age. We rediscovered the junk, when we came to sell my mother in law’s house 3 years ago. At this point it was very distressed and languishing in a dusty box in the attic. I was tempted to take it to a charity shop but given its history and sentimental value we brought it home.
I am so glad we did especially as in its newly restored state it is now sitting very proudly on the window sill of our landing.
Once again thank you for all the work you undertook and the forensic analysis to discover where the missing bit went.