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Introduction - Artisans of the Valley, based in Pennington, NJ, is an exclusive custom furniture, cabinetry, carving, and restoration shop. Our craftsmen are the last of the traditional apprenticeship method of passing on the skills of furniture design, joynery, carving, and finishing. We offer our custom furniture by commission, hand signing and dating each heirloom upon completion. Artisans offers heirloom quality hand rubbed shellac and tung oil finishes as well as hand painted options on any of our pieces. In addition, modern finishes are available through our affiliates including the full spectrum of lacquers, acrylics, and urethanes. Artisans of the Valley is the last of the true conservation studios in New Jersey, providing museum quality restorations, refinishing, repair, and preservation services. Artisans will evaluate your antiques and collectables to determine the best options for your cherished possessions. Artisans is one of the few remaining restoration studios that can handle restoring a true shellac finish and provide the skills necessary to replace or restore damaged ball and claw feet, detailed carvings, and veneer. Bent on educating our clients, Artisans offers a tactical theory on restoration entitled “The Philosophy of Restoration.” This article outlines the concepts associated with restoration, and helps dispense the myth surrounding antiques and their care. Artisans restoration services are not limited to furniture; we handles military artifacts such as firearms, swords, and leather goods. We are the only conservation studio restoring antique and collectable chess sets; bragging rights include several the famous Jaques of London first 300 Staunton series sets. Artisans provides services for commissions, restoration, carving, and design to residential & commercial clients, design firms, and architects. Please contact us to discuss the specifics of your project.

Summit Productions is a professional fund raising company based in Goldsboro, North Carolina with over 15 years in the family portrait fund raising business. The history of Summit Productions and the company's growth within the industry has been phenomenal. Summit Productions was formed in 1984 by Gene and Denise Wiseman as a way to provide local fire department and rescue squads with an honest and personal way to raise extra operating funds without creating extra work or confusion for the organizations. The Wiseman's had worked for other companies doing similar projects for almost 10 years and felt that there had to be another way to provide this service to organizations so that the focus of the fund raising project would be the organizations and providing customers with a quality service. Summit Productions has experienced overwhelming growth since it was founded by sticking to a basic creed that has become their daily mission statement: "To continuously strive to provide an excellent service to non-profit organizations through hard work, professional attitude, and outstanding customer service." Summit Productions started out with 3 employees, an attic for an office, a handful of contracts, and a mountain of dreams and goals. The original fund raising projects only included fire departments and rescue squads in North Carolina and offered a $10.00 coupon that entitled the customer to receive an 8X10 print of their family for the contribution they gave their district department or squad. Times changed - as well as fire department's and rescue squad's needs for extra funds - so Summit created new fund raising projects to accommodate this while still maintaining their goals of quality service and products and their dreams of continued growth. In the late 1980's, Summit Productions extended it's helping hand into Maryland and surrounding states and started offering new services and better project plans for their sponsors. Some new services included a $40.00 and a $50.00 certificate with an increased free ...