MATERIAL
Type of support of the artefact
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Glass plate conservation (I)
Glass plate photograph conservation (I) Types of damages (silver mirroring, tapes, fingerprints), and how to properly store photogrpahs in four flap envelopes.
Book “Identification and conservation of photographs”
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Gone with the wind
I don’t like much having war books, but I must admit that this one is particularly beautiful. The velvet binding seemed to me a challenging issue on the restoration, which did not have major complications besides this. I show the restoration of this book because of the headaches it has given me when solving the lost areas, the wooden work. The considerable losses on a laborious woodcarving work, and the lack of originals of many of the missing pieces fairly complicated the subject (the shields on the corners were different).
Conservation of stationery manuscript in a vellum binding
The book from the notary of Esparraguera (1827) was severely damages by mould. To the extent to suffer remarkable losses on both folios and covers. The remaining folios were so weak that discouraged even a most careful handling.
