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The treatment of a crushed and distorted Inuit sealskin float is described. The float, covered before treatment with degraded oils and frass and with multiple punctures due to insect damage, was [...]

Two caribou hide robes in the exhibition “The Athapaskans – Strangers of the North” were vandalized with blue, ballpoint ink while on display in Anchorage. Several chemical, mechanical and [...]

A damaged vacuum hot table manufactured by Convectron, Incorporated (model number: VHT MK-II MOD I) was repaired for the Pacific Conservation Centre of the Canadian Conservation Institute. The [...]

The cleaning and lining of a painting measuring 1.90 x 2.93 m are described. Slim Jim by the British Columbian artist Rowland Lee was lined in three sections on a vacuum hot table.

The extremely fragile, cupped and flaking paint layer condition of an 1865 portrait by Gerhard is described. The consolidation of the paint and ground and the discovery, upon cleaning, of [...]

The repair of a rectangular puncture damage in an 18th-century harp soundboard is described. The filling of the lost area and the subsequent inpainting of the completed repair are outlined.

Applications of a diamond cell microsampling device for infrared spectrophotometric examinations and the results of such examinations on a wide range of art and archaeological materials are [...]

In the conventional 14C method, age is determined on the basis of accurate measurement of beta-ray decay rate. In the new method, the individual 14C atoms are counted in a sample by using an [...]

The conservation of two whale’s bone artifacts, DgRw4:3011 and 3012, excavated as 250 fragments, is described. These semi-cylindrical fittings seem to have served as upper arm shields and varied [...]

A set of The Atlantic Neptune dating from 1780 to 1781 and comprising 176 charts, views and title pages with many aquatints in monochrome and colour was conserved. The leather binding had [...]