Call Jan Paris, a conservator at UNC-Chapel Hill (919-962-1143) or anyone in the paper lab at NEDCC for discussion. I know, I know, here I go again, but you can almost never answer a conservation treatment question over the Internet. You almost always need more information than the asker gives. First concern here is that the work's contemporary. Conservators often like to contact living artists before they work on a modern piece (or to research the conceptual underpinnings of work by a dead artist) to make sure they're not interfering with artist's intent (and yes, some expect their works to decay). Second, if the first is not an issue, is probably the interface between metal and paper -- there should probably be a barrier to prevent corrosion staining -- and you need to know what metal to kow what adhesive and what inhibitor or barrier. Third is how big and heavy are the metal pieces, and how strong does that mean the adhesive needs to be, and is there another preferrable mounting strategy to support the metal elements. And so on and so on. Call Jan or another conservator. K _________________________________ Karen Motylewski 508-470-1010 Northeast Document Conservation Center 508-475-6021 fax 100 Brickstone Square <[log in to unmask]> Andover, MA 01810 Use KM in subject field