Baroque lock
The new construction of a baroque lock: the old one on the left - new on the right ... or was it the other way round? In the course of restoring the locks of an 18th Century castle, one missing lock had to be re-made. Logically, this work was done using techniques of those times, and only the practised eye of a specialist can tell "new" from "old".
Taken to pieces the lock clearly reveals how much handicraft know-how is necessary to make a bolt-type lock with 3 different ways of closing. All the parts are hot tin-plated and the chased brass plate is brushed and waxed.
The Rosen Castle gate
Rosen Castle: restoration of the main gate.
As in the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, the classical gate was complete but overgrown with ivy, not with roses. When this was cleared away considerable damage was revealed, above all to the decorative impost. With the help of photos and rusty remnants the whole gate was restored, coloured and covered with gold leaf and the gate gleams again as it did originally.
