Yes, I have done this type of work before and you are best to replace the missing pieces.  there are several companies that make these replacements. Just do a google search for historic mosaic tiles.   I will also be covering this topic in detail in my up coming Historic Stone Restoration seminar. Will be annoucing dates soon at <a target="_top" href="http://www.thestoneandtileschool.com/">www.thestoneandtileschool.com</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Baird Standish <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a target="_top" href="mailto:bairdstandish@gmail.com">bairdstandish@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi,<br>A customer asked us to clean and polish an approximately 100 year old mosaic marble tiled foyer.  We have done this kind of thing in the past with good results.  In this case, however, some of the small tiles have been lost, cracked etc.  I went to some tile places to see if we could find remnant or leftover tiles that we could cut up and use as replacements but came up with nothing.  So my plan b may be to just epoxy the cracks and cavities with acrylic based (polyethelene based?) epoxy and then polish over. But am wondering if anyone has had experience or stories about fixing up this sort of thing.  I saw a faux marble mosaic paint job in NY last summer which did&#39;t look too bad.  I have attached some photos.  Thanks much.<br>
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