I really like Rule #1...everybody who sees the wine in the collection all
want me to open if for them. One of our contractors pulled out a corkscrew!
lol
Thanks for all of the responses. I think we have decided that for now we
will store the bottles alone, on a bottom shelf, contained in case of spills
and cleary marked. I have a good feeling that if I have yet to knock over
the Czec cut glass vase that the wine bottles will do just fine!!! LOL
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Marielle Fortier
Museum Registrar
Norwich University Museum
Northfield, Vermont
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>From: Pamela Silvestri <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Wine bottle storage
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:41:43 EST
>
>
>
>In a message dated 1/12/2007 1:30:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
>Perhaps we could convince David Lewis to try a sample?
>
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>
>Oh - shessh -- I make one comment about overindulgence, and now all of a
>sudden I get nominated "official taste-tester" . . . hehehe.
>
>While I'm not a huge object-weniee, I do seem to remember learning in my
>materials and collections handling class that Rule #1 was, "don't eat the
>artifacts" (Yes-siree, those two years spent getting my master's from
>Cooperstown
>Graduate Program really paid off. LOL)
>
>
>Besides, . . . . Passing the bottle to my left . . . . I think Dave (a
>professional conservator) is FAR more qualified to assess the "age" and
>"condition" of the objects than I am.
>
>
>
>
>
>lol I agree with Rule #1, if course. The only time I came close to breaking
>this rule..years ago (at another museum) we were identifying, cataloguing,
>creating condition reports and re-housing artifacts of a collection from
>the
>Yucatan Peninsula. These were objects that had been collected during the
>1920's-30's as part of a field study. A student employee informed me that
>she was
>going to leave a botanical sample in it's original container (glass
>jar/metal
>lid) because she couldn't remove the rusted cover.
>
>I was about to tell her to that would be fine for the time being -to just
>note this but I decided to examine the jar first. It had a label on it
>which
>basically read, "there is no name for this plant, but Mayan woman use this
>to
>lose weight". At which time I made a futile attempt to open this jar.
>
>Other than that - well the other day I was setting up mouse traps in the
>museum and licking peanutbutter from my fingers as I was going along.
>Normally,
>I wouldn't do this but I hadn't eaten all day! This too doesn't exactly
>count
>as breaking Rule #1!
>
>Pam
>
>
>
>Pamela Silvestri, Volunteer Assistant Museum Director
>Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
>Shenipsit State Forest Headquarters
>166 Chestnut Hill Road
>Stafford Springs, Connecticut 06076
>Telephone: (860) 684-3430
>e-mail: [log in to unmask] or
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