For What it's Worth: Woburn-based Manzi Appraisers & Restoration Breathes New Life Back into Pieces of History and Memory, One Item at a Time

Boston’s famed Old North Church is an icon of American history, so when the church wanted to restore a set of 400-year-old angel statues in 2023, it needed to be careful in choosing who would do the work. “They’re the oldest things in the Old North Church. They hadn’t been restored in 300 years until we did it,” said David J. Manzi, CEO and founder of Woburn-based Manzi Appraisers & Restoration, which carried out that delicate task. At the company’s restoration lab, the team gently cleaned, added minor infill, and painted the four statues. In addition, two of the angels had lost the trumpets they were holding, so the team a

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