I’m always receiving news items from CAA members for the association’s weekly e-newsletter. So when I get an email with the subject line “Member e-News,” I usually just file it away until the next Wednesday morning, when I prepare that week’s issue.

When I opened the email from a CAA member in Belgium this morning, I found ten splendid photos. I have room for just one of them in the newsletter, but they’re too gorgeous not to share, so I’m posting them all here.

Here’s the story, as it will appear in today’s newsletter:

“CAA member Patrick Schroven (a carriage restorer in Belgium) wrote to announce that his firm has finished the restoration of their Dress Chariot by Fr. Flack of Vienna. The project took 3,900 hours to complete! Patrick wrote, ‘The carriage is set in our stable colors of cobalt blue with golden yellow, and the panels bear our family coat of arms and crest. The pure silk cloth for the interior upholstery, an exact copy from a royal carriage, was specially woven for us and the matching broadlace is true ‘épinglé’ carriage lace. This is a beautiful example of a late-nineteenth-century state vehicle and a fine addition to our private collection.'”

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