This pair of old sconce are really useless in their current state. As you can see from the image, you can only hang one of them on the wall. Miss S was determined to fix this though and she had come up with an ingenious way of doing it.
First she cut an oval shape out of a masonite board to match the shape of the sconces backside.
She then cut the oval in half and added a small notch. This is kind of hard to describe so please have a look at the third image. In the image you can see the part she has cut out of the masonite board fitting perfectly inside the sconce oval.The idea is of course that you slide the notch down over a nail or a screw in the wall.
Next, Miss S stirred some two component epoxy glue together and pushed the plate in place.
After letting the glue harden, it becomes very strong. As you can see from the last image it is definitely strong enough to hold the sconce hanging from a screw.
Another successful and innovative fix for the record (and for the wall). 
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