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BY DANICA LLOYD
The sta at Colonial Brass specializes in repairing, re nishing and restoring old-fashioned cash registers.
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11320 FM 529, Bldg. B, Houston www.colonialbrass.net
From left: Mark Marz interacts with a customer inquiring about having her grandmother’s silverware polished. His wife, Robin Marz, and sister, Kellie McCarty, work alongside him at the shop.
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Family business makes old things new at Colonial Brass Mark Marz grew up working at his father’s metal restoration business and took ownership at age 18. Today, he said Colonial Brass has more than 20,000 Houston-area clients, not including those who ship their brass, copper, silver, bronze and steel items from all over the U.S. “When you’re dealing with things that are
“We’ll do the repair on it, and then we’ll restore it in any nish that they may come up with. And when we get into nishes, there are literally 100 dierent colors that we could go with,” Marz said. A family a air Nearly half of the sta of 12 is related, but Marz said all his employees are treated like family. When his previous location was destroyed by a re in 2023, he said he kept his team on the payroll until they could reopen seven months later. “They’re not just employees; they’re artisans. They’re artists in the craft that they do, and I can’t easily replace them,” he said. “I have employees that have been with me for 20 years.”
somebody’s grandparents’ or [have] been in the family for 200 years, the look on their face when you give it to them—that is what we do the work for,” he said. Respecting the craft Colonial Brass specializes in restoring, polishing, renishing, repairing, designing and custom fabricating just about anything made of metal. Marz said his business is one of the only ones of its kind left in the region. Most items are returned to clients within four to six weeks, but the sta fast-tracks services for churches that meet weekly and oers same-day door hardware restoration.
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