Mr. Perry, does the restoration of pieces such as these involve the use of hand tools, or is the use of power tools permissible provided any obvious signs that a power tool was used are removed?
Minor correction, I know Mr. Perry, being a student of history, simply misspoke when he stated that Aaron Burr was killed in his duel with Hamilton. Indeed, it was Hamilton who lost his life, and the resultant scandal sealed Burr’s fate as a somewhat unsavory character in American history. I think this treatment is unfair. For all his peccadilloes, he was universally considered an extremely generous man who took into his home and supported numerous children, a struggling artist and others. He often did so to his own financial detriment. He also fought for the abolishment of slavery, the franchise for women, and openly contended, to Hamilton’s dismay, that women are the equal of men intellectually and should be given the same educational opportunities as men. He was also most welcoming of non-Englishmen and the foreign born, again to Hamilton’s horror. And let us not forget that his skill as a soldier during the Revolution initially won him the admiration of his peers and of Patriots alike. However, Burr was well known to be politically self serving, not adverse to subterfuge, an atheist and a self-confessed sexual brigand. If he was anything, he was complex, and in my opinion, a far more interesting and compelling man to study than Hamilton who was, and I’ll be blunt, an authoritarian and proto -corporatist masquerading as some great scion of Liberty.
Mr. Perry, does the restoration of pieces such as these involve the use of hand tools, or is the use of power tools permissible provided any obvious signs that a power tool was used are removed?
Minor correction, I know Mr. Perry, being a student of history, simply misspoke when he stated that Aaron Burr was killed in his duel with Hamilton. Indeed, it was Hamilton who lost his life, and the resultant scandal sealed Burr’s fate as a somewhat unsavory character in American history. I think this treatment is unfair. For all his peccadilloes, he was universally considered an extremely generous man who took into his home and supported numerous children, a struggling artist and others. He often did so to his own financial detriment. He also fought for the abolishment of slavery, the franchise for women, and openly contended, to Hamilton’s dismay, that women are the equal of men intellectually and should be given the same educational opportunities as men. He was also most welcoming of non-Englishmen and the foreign born, again to Hamilton’s horror. And let us not forget that his skill as a soldier during the Revolution initially won him the admiration of his peers and of Patriots alike. However, Burr was well known to be politically self serving, not adverse to subterfuge, an atheist and a self-confessed sexual brigand. If he was anything, he was complex, and in my opinion, a far more interesting and compelling man to study than Hamilton who was, and I’ll be blunt, an authoritarian and proto -corporatist masquerading as some great scion of Liberty.