After the success of the Gilding Conservation Symposium, I spoke on many occasions. One high point was teaching at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation Analytical Laboratory. Following several days of lectures, I demonstrated treatment techniques in their conservation workshop to an amazing group of furniture conservation students - all of whom went on to work for major museums and cultural institutions across the USA.

A second extraordinary experience was arranged by my Canadian colleague, Michael Harrington. In 1994, I was awarded a fellowship by the Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) in Ottawa, Ontario. There, I advised on gilding treatments, set up the furniture conservation lab to better conserve gilded artifacts, and worked with CCI scientists to establish a set of gold leaf standards by which the karat of a gilded work of art could be matched to currently available gold leaf. In leading one of their gilding workshops, I was joined by legendary gilding conservator, Malcolm Green whom I had met more than a decade earlier at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In the photograph, Malcolm is the first person on the left.