Publisher's Note For the jewellery repairer, 'the ideal is the repair that cannot be detected'. The means of achieving that result, says author James Hickling, may not be the orthodox one, so a textbook for him is more of a personal guide book showing the shortcuts and avoiding the pitfalls. Yet in Practical Jewellery Repair the author provides much more than this, putting on paper for the first time detailed information about the methods and techniques of the professional repairer and restorer of jewellery.