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Stool No 67
Small, low.
Hard dark red wood with two strips/<panels> of round
bars at top. Slight/<Strips of> ebony and ivory veneer round panels of bars. Some of veneer loose. Washed with damp sponge and water.
Stuck in loose pieces of wood and loose inlay/<veneer>
with casein adhesive
Stools Nos 139 & 140
Ebony with ivory inlay and ornamented with
bands of gold on gesso. Leather seat.
In very bad condition.
Ivory. Some eaten by insects; some loose
Gesso. Some loose
Leather. Perished and brittle and part gone.
Sponged with damp sponge.
Replaced loose pieces of ivory & gesso with
celluloid cement. Sprayed with celluloid in amyl acetate
Treated remains of leather of 139 with lanoline
Some of the ivory inlay is reddish –
possibly stained.