TAA i.2.12a.1.52

Page number
52
Caption
Relevant conservation notes page
Creator
Material
Ink
Paper
Measurements
22.8 cm x 17.8 cm (h x w)
Transcription

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Stick 95
Hard red wood. Washed with damp sponge. 

Knob and some 15 cms of stick below covered with gesso 

& thin gold leaf. This loose. Cleaned gold with 

NH3 & washed with water & refastened loose gold 

with Necol cement.
At ferrule end covered with gesso – gold missing.
Gesso loose – refastened with cellulose acetate cement.

 

Snake Head Pendants/<Ornaments> 138
2 wood : 1 stone: gold setting.
Washed with water & cleaned gold with NH3 

& after with water.
Sprayed cord with a solution of celluloid acetate/<celluloid in amyl>

in acetate. Re-fastened on loose gold mounts in 

two cases (wood) with cellulose acetate cement.


Papyrus Box 42.
Spr Blew off dust: sprayed with solution of 

celluloid in amyl acetate.
Treated with solution of paraffin wax in benzine 

applied with a pipette.
Treated with melted wax.