Caring for Cultural Material 1

Caring for Cultural Material 2

Damage and Decay

Managing Collections

Managing People

Handling, Transportation, Storage and Display

Glossary

Index

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Caring for Cultural Material 2
In this volume:
– Textiles
– Leather
– Wood
– Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Material
arrow Metals
– Outdoor Collections
– Acknowledgments
Metals
In this chapter:
– Objectives
– Introduction
– Metal objects in collections
– Common metals
– The nature of metals
– What are the most common types of damage?
– Common causes of damage
– Handling, storage and display guidelines
– Metals in Australia’s climatic zones
– Care of particular metals
– Silver
– Nickel silver
– Copper and copper alloys
– Iron and its alloys
– Plated iron
– Lead and pewter
– Tin and its alloys
– Aluminium
– Gold
  MORE ABOUT METALS
– Alloys
– Corrosion of metals
– Electroplate
– Zinc carbonate blotter
– Brasses
– Bronzes
– Iron and steel
– Bentonite paste
– Chloride ions and aluminium and its alloys
– Spot-tests
arrow For further reading
– Self-evaluation quiz
– Answers to self-evaluation quiz

 

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For further reading

Brown, B.F., Burnett, H.C., Thomas Chase, W., Goodway, M., Kruger, J., Pourbaix M., eds. 1977, Corrosion and Metal Artefacts—A Dialogue between Conservators and Archaeologists and Corrosion Scientists, NBS Special Publication 479, U.S. Department of Commerce/National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.

MacLeod, I. D., 1981, 'Bronze Disease: An Electrochemical Explanation', ICCM Bulletin, VII, ICCM Inc, Canberra, pp 16-26.

Stambolov, T., 1985, The Corrosion and Conservation of Metallic Antiquities and Works of Art, CL Publication, Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science, Amsterdam.

Scott, David A., 1991, Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Metals, The Getty Conservation Institute, The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Archetype Books, Marina del Rey, California.

Scott, D.A., Podany, J., Considine, B.W., eds.1994, Ancient and Historic Metals: Conservation and Scientific Research, Proceedings of a Symposium organised by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute, November 1991, The Getty Conservation Institute, Marina del Rey, California.

 

 

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