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           [log in to unmask] "cynthia edwards" writes:

> ...
>      What the Curator and I would like to know is that if anyone has
> recently stored or moved any doll collections.  If you have, did you
> use boxes? If you did, how did you use them?  How did you store the
> doll collection.  How did you cushion your dolls and their clothing?
> What else did you worry about?
Bucks County Museum repackaged its dolls about 3 years ago.  We used
boxes, nesting the dolls, one layer per box, in neutral-ph tissue paper.
The dolls were largely stored with their clothing on, except where
special support was needed.  Each item of clothing was individually
numbered (using the same number-on-linen-tape technique which we use
for regular clothing).  We also worried about wax dolls, and wrote on
the outside of the box: WAX doll: protect from HEAT.

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Patricia Reynolds
Keeper of Social History, Buckinghamshire County Museum / Freelance Curator

16 Gibsons Green
Heelands
Milton Keynes
MK13 7NH
ENGLAND

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