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Hello,
I'm posting for a colleague at an agricultural research college. (I
searched the archive but didn't find any similar posts.) She has a
collection of 200 wax fruit specimens (scientific quality, not Victorian
parlor fruit) made between the 1920s and 1940s. They've been stored in
styrofoam peanuts since the 1960s, subsequently there's a lot of little
white flecks stuck to the fruit. I haven't seen the collection and I
don't know the storage conditions - I hope they haven't been in an attic.
What's the best storage system for wax fruit; specifically, what's the
safest packing material to be in contact with the artifact? I was going
to recommend archival boxes with dividers, but what should she use if
she wants additional packing underneath and around each item? Wax is
one material I haven't worked with much.
If you've worked with such a collection or know museums that have them,
I'd appreciate any information to pass on to my friend.
Thanks,
John Marks
Curator of Collections
Geneva (NY) Historical Society
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