I was just thinking, if this was the way you wanted to go, there are also
the plastic "bacelets" that hospitals use for patients.  They come in a
variety of colours, widths, and hardness.  They can be written on, can have
see-through pockets (ideal for bar codes), have a one way snap lock so to
remove, it needs to be cut off, and has a generous adjustable length so it
can be to put around something.  If you wanted a more permenant method,
there are always the "foil" property tags used for office equipment and
folding chairs.  But, personally, I would tend to go with the bracelet idea.

Robyn

At 17:39 6/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>We have a large vehicle coolection consisting of carriages, wagons and
>>sleigh's. Over the years they have tried to place accession number on the
>>vehicles with limited success. Any suggestions mon a permanent method to apply
>>accession numbers.
>
>I don't advocate permanent marking for any object, but as for a semi-perm.
>reversible method, we just use large paper tags with the number written
>with a marker on the tag, not the object.  I've been discussing the
>possible use of stronger plastic tags similar to livestock ear tags
>attached to our large objects with both the number written on it as well as
>a bar code.  It's a new idea and hasn't gone beyond speculative discussion.
>It's probably worth a try.
>
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