If one is to believe the omen, I am to suffer seven years of misfortune! I had just finished ageing the looking glass and was flipping it over when, with great ambisinister aplomb, I let it slip, smashing it to smithereens! It fell no more than six inches and would probably have clattered, unbroken, onto the bench… but for the hammer lying thereon.
I originally intended to use up the remainder of the plate that I cut the glasses for the recent Pair of George II Walnut Girandoles and Two Small Mirrors from, but after a change of heart, I ordered a new plate with a one inch bevel from the excellent and ever helpful glass merchants, Varga Brothers (7 Richards Street, Mitcham). Today I contacted them for a second time, explained my luckless antic and ordered a replacement bevelled glass.
Pegs and 'Tails 
Oh no… seven years, you say.
I trust you have some salt close to hand.. I had to look up ambisinister, and with a flash of insight suddenly made the connection sinister, ambisinister and dexter with ambidextrous… although rather than two left hands, I take the context to be with **neither handed**, rather than **either handed**
Sincerest condolences, Ray
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Now you can try your hand at making a Silver Eglomisé mirror.
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I had the same occurrence on a beautiful piece I was almost done with.
ahhh…the sorrow.
But, “better to have built & broke, then to have never built at all”…
I’m sure your replacement piece will be even more grand.
Thank you.
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Thank you all for your condolences. I expect to have the replacement glass firmly in my grip later in the week. I shall then install it in the fretwork mirror and post, hopefully, of its successful completion.
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Yes, well, as it is for a period mirror, I believe the seven years curse has expired. Luckily for you, it wasn’t for a modern mirror.
Gary
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