The Writing Lady

In December 2011, two thieves pried two female statues from gravestones at Riverside Cemetery,which was designated as a National Historic Site in 1988. Although both figures were recovered after a staff member at a Bristol scrap yard recognized the items and alerted police, only one of the statues — "Mourning," a pendant to the bronze "Hope" that welcomes visitors at the cemetery gate — was intact. The other, the so-called "Writing Lady" that had adorned the Smith family monument, had been hacked apart with a reciprocating saw. Waterbury police reported the sculpture was "damaged beyond repair." 

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—from CT, Insider

The 30 sections of cut-up bronze were reassembled by making an internal frame work of bronze bars and stainless steel mesh. Losses were compensated for with bronze plate and custom repair resin. The sculpture was re-patinated and coated to match the original surface coloration. The process took our our team over a year to complete; the sculpture was built and taken apart several times in order to match the original design. Once completed in our studio, the sculpture was returned to the cemetery and re-installed on the Smith Memorial.