Hahaha!  I love it.  Thank you for this rant because it helps to put
things into the proper perspective!  Bread is best used for sandwiches.

O
Olivia S. Anastasiadis, Curator
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace
18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard
Yorba Linda, CA  92886
(714) 993-5075; fax (714) 528-0544; e-mail:  [log in to unmask]

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:58:07 -0400 Diane Gutenkauf
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>Denis Allen, [log in to unmask], wrote:
>
>>While working at the Bell Museum years ago I was informed by John
>Jaros,=
>
>then the preparator at that >institution, that one of the most
>effective
>ways of cleaning mounted specimens that had become dusty
>>was with bread.  A loaf of sliced bread is cheap, already in usable
>size=
>d
>pieces, will not blow arsenic >dust or other harmful materials used in
>ol=
>d
>mounts all over, and is easily obtained.
>
>
>Let's get sensible. Really, BREAD!!! And I suppose you rub raw
>potatoes
>over your oil paintings and feel the need to "feed" your furniture,
>too. =
>Do
>you still believe that boiling linseed oil makes it "ok?"  Do you
>freeze
>your insect infested artifacts by putting them on the roof of your
>buildi=
>ng
>in the winter? When was the last time you consulted a professional
>conservation journal? Food products are hardly appropriate materials
>to u=
>se
>for caring for cultural property.There are reams of published material
>dedicated to caring for natural history specimens and none of them
>cite
>bread as an appropriate tool. Perhaps you should update your library
>and
>refrain from dispensing erroneous conservation advice.
>
>A preparator is not a conservator. A preparator does not usually have
>a
>degree in chemistry. A preparator ofted works under the direction of a
>conservator.
>
>And as for Mr. Jaros, perhaps that's why he's working as a director
>and n=
>ot
>as a preparator any longer. =
>
>
>Diane "On my soapbox again and holding out for moments of rational
>though=
>t"
>Gutenkauf
>