TAA i.2.12a.2.11.recto
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Miscellaneous Notes
Throat spray.
Pink walls required
Melting wax solution in sun.
Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt. W M. Flinders Petrie
London 1892.
“The first great trouble is salt; it scales the face of
stones, or makes them drop off in powder; it destroys the
surface of pottery; it eats away metal.”
“Another source of trouble is the rotting of organic
materials, wood, string, leather, cloth etc”. For all
such things the best treatment is a bath[?] of melted
wax.”
“… the waxing back and the wax pot are the
main preservatives”.
To remove dust from gesso gilt or painted
benzine & soft brush <much> better than water. Water
tends to enter cracks & to split gesso more.
Same with inlay of stones, glass or glaze.