In many cases, I feel that museums can lose sight of the initial charter of a museum, that is, protecting the objects that are in
its care, and in those cases tend to focus on other goals when pressured, albeit subtly at times and not so subtly at other times,
by the powers that be or by the current financial operating pressures. Almost anything in todays American society can be justified
in the name of money.......................... power, or fear.

If you can't protect the objects in the same manner that you can at the museum, then you must not do what ever it is that you were
thinking of doing!

Period!

James Moss
Horological Conservator

Perhaps a fine replication so marked would suffice.......

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