Stained Glass Question

[cjsmith]

Feel free to point others at this. My thanks for any info or help.

I've got a piece of stained glass I find lovely. Sadly, it was injured several years ago when it was dropped, and I've never known what to do with it since. I can't just hang it as is. One corner has small shards falling out.

Stained Glass People: Can this be fixed?

As best I can tell (by looking through the clear bits) the seams between the glass pieces are lead, not copper with flux. The piece is about 11x17 overall and is framed in a thin metal edge. That frame would have to be removed and redone afterward. Three triangular pieces at the corners would need replacing; they are clear glass with a very subtle texture, for which clear glass with no texture at all would be a good enough match for me.

Any hope?

(If not, what's a good way to dispose of it? Glass recyclers can't do anything with it, can they?)

Comments

[visgoth.livejournal.com]

My aunt used to have a business repairing stained glass pieces. She was staying busy and making money, and only closed up because she decided to dedicate more time to her horses.

[evilegg.livejournal.com]

I was recently "skooled" on stained glass.
The most interseting part was that some colors are way more expensive than otheres, and that even if a piece is broken pretty badly, glass-hounds will take them apart for the small pieces to use in future repairs because color match is so important.