The gates to the prestigious property of the Leathersellers Guild in the City of London were made in 1927, and appeared in the press of the time owing to their immaculate coats of arms in repoussee sheet iron.
Only basic maintenance had been done from new, some of it with glass fibre, and we were called in to give the gates their first major overhaul in nearly eighty years. The gates were in good enough condition that there was no need to take them off site, but the coats of arms were taken back to the workshop. Baptiste Deleau spent some time painstakingly making new components from charcoal wrought iron, and the coats of arms were put into as new condition and returned to site painted and gilded.
