<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Michael, I had 2 badges for my 9 fin calve covers sone in the UK by:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Pamela David Enamels<div class=""><u class=""><a href="http://badgecraft.co.uk" class="">http://badgecraft.co.uk</a></u></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excellent work, but can take a while if busy. Curt is correct, it is not cloisonné, but red enamel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can send photos if you want. They made a mold from one of mine so they reproduce from scratch.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Randy Hicks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 1, 2024, at 2:32 PM, Curtis Arndt <<a href="mailto:cnaarndt@gmail.com" class="">cnaarndt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="4" class="">Michael,</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">First of all, the original badge was not chrome plated, it was nickel plated only over the base metal which is copper. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Secondly, the badge is NOT Cloisonne, it is red enamel.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">My original badge was restored by Karla Maxwell of Maxwell Enamels in Vista, CA. Karla is a personal friend, lives 5 miles from me and is in high demand from Pebble Beach restorers. She is also not inexpensive.</font></div><div class=""><a href="https://maxwellenamels.com/" class=""><font size="4" class="">Maxwell Enamels | Emblem Restoration</font></a><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Let me see if I can contact her to see if your badge can be re-plated without damaging the red enamel.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">As an alternative, Jim Smalley found an artisan in England who was making perfect reproductions of these badges for the same price I paid Karla to restore my original [$500 USD]; however, my copper base required laser welding to fill in several gouges which upped the price.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">The fifth attached photo of three badges are these reproductions.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Cheers,</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Curtis</font></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 9:57 AM Michael Oritt <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com" class="">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" class="">Please see the two attached pics showing first, how the badge on my early aftermet finned valve cover should look and second, how mine appears. The cloisonne is in good condition but the chrome plating is gone.</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" class="">Can the badge be replated without destroying the cloisonne and if so does anyone have a recommendation for where I might get this work done?</div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color:rgb(51,51,255)" class="">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div>
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