Consider using AIC's "Selecting a Conservator" referral system <
http://www.aic-faic.org/guide/form.html >.

Tim Vitale 
Paper, Photographs & 
Electronic Media Conservator 
Film Migration (still) to Digital Format 
Digital Imaging & Artwork Facsimiles 
Preservation & Imaging Consulting 
Preservation Associates 
1500 Park Avenue 
Suite 132 
Emeryville, CA 94608 

510-594-8277 
510-594-8799 fax 
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Albumen website (2001) http://albumen.stanford.edu/
VideoPreservation Website (2007) http://videopreservation.stanford.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Janis Wilkens
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:02 AM
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Subject: Conservation Advice

We need an objects conservator to advise us about, and perhaps provide treatment
of, a trophy cup from the 1930s. We are talking of displaying it, but it seems
rather tarnished and we want to polish it up first; however, we think it may have
a gold wash, which might be damaged by the normal polishing procedure for silver.

We’d like to find out for sure what the surface metal is and how to treat it; have
someone do the work if we can’t do it; and get advice on displaying it in such a
way as to inhibit future tarnishing.

Any advice from the list, or recommendations of conservators–-preferably in the
southeast–-would be much appreciated! Thanks much.

_________________________________
Janis Wilkens
Registrar
Levine Museum of the New South 
200 E. Seventh St.
Charlotte NC 28202-2508
704.333.1887 x 257  |   fax 704.333.1896
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www.museumofthenewsouth.org/
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