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If contact is suspected, trail restorer Blaker recommends treating it like poison oak and scrubbing the affected skin with a degreaser.

Five years later, a Times report about the secondhand clothing trade described Mirkin as “a serious collector, designer and restorer of vintage clothing.”

An estimated 2,000 masons, carpenters, restorers, roofers, foundry-workers, art experts, sculptors and engineers worked on the project - providing a huge boost for French arts and crafts.

Some of the restorers are professionals, but many more appear to be hobbyists, in it for the challenge, the fun and the satisfaction.

The inscription on her headstone had become so illegible that, prompted by a local campaign, masonry restorers were brought in to spruce it up.