Hello Beau:

We are nearly done with a two-year process of rehousing 6,000 miniature
painted lead soldiers at our museum. The way we chose to proceed was to have
acid free boxes custom made to fit Viking cabinets so each box could hold
three marching regiments or two cavalry units. Each box is lined in the
bottom with a sheet of Volara (so the miniatures don't slide around) and
each individual soldier is wrapped with a "bumper" of acid free tissue at
the base. This way the soldiers don't touch each other and at least the top
half of each figure is still visible for identification and handling
purposes (as opposed to wrapping the entire figure in tissue). Each regiment
is separated from another in the box with a blueboard divider so they don't
get mixed within a box. The boxes can then be stacked on a shelf (two or
three high) and 75 boxes fit into 1 cabinet. If you would like a photo of a
packed box to make this explanation more clear, please let me know.

Good luck!
Jennifer Madden

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Jennifer Y. Madden
Director of Collections & Exhibitions
Heritage Museums & Gardens
67 Grove Street
Sandwich, MA 02563-2147
508.888.3300 x.101
Fax 508.833.6568
http://www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of George Harris
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:08 PM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Lead Soldiers

Hello,
Can anyone tell me what the best way to store lead soldiers would be?
What about
displaying them?  I was thinking of storing them in trays made of acid
free board of
some kind lined with acid free pading (if it exists) and then putting a
couple trays
in each box.
Thanks.
Beau

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