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Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau

Owner: Jean Cocteau Museum (Menton, [...]

Conservation of Salvador Dalí’s “Peerless” suitcase
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Conservation of Salvador Dalí’s “Peerless” suitcase

Suitcase owned by Salvador Dalí, brand "Peerless", made of wood, leather, fabric and metal. There's a boarding label dated 1948. Dry cleaning, stain, rust and fat removal.

Restauración de viñeta gráfica a gouache y acuarela
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Restauración de viñeta gráfica a gouache y acuarela

Restauración de dibujo a tinta china, lápiz de grafito, acuarela y gouache sobre papel. Dibujo original del humoriosta gráfico Cesc, con oxidación muy intensa debida al paspartú. Limpieza en seco, acuosa, desacidificación, blanqueo solar y retoque.

Conservation of cartoon drawing of a packed tram
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Conservation of cartoon drawing of a packed tram

Conservation of a china ink, pencil, watercolour and gouache drawing with severe discolouration due to light exposure. Dry cleaning, wash cleaning, deacidification, light bleaching and flattening.

Assessment on the conservation of Swamiji’s manuscripts

Assessment on preventive conservation, housing, storage, digitization, exhibition and possibilities of conservation of Swamiji's manuscripts from Vedanta Academy historical archive.

Conservation of stationery vellum binding with rolled sewing
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Conservation of stationery vellum binding with rolled sewing

Owner: Historical Archive of Lleida (Catalonia), National Archive of Catalonia, […]

Conservation of recycled limp vellum wallet binding
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Conservation of recycled limp vellum wallet binding

Conservation of a manuscript with a palimpsest limp vellum binding with flap. The flap and other missing parts are reconstructed after conservation.

Conservation of a manuscript with one binding inside the other
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Conservation of a manuscript with one binding inside the other

Not uncommon to find waste material as part of a binding (parchment manuscripts, for instance), but quite much rare when the previous and original binding is part of the boards layers of the current recycled binding! The outer and visible binding belonged first to a former book, and the hidden binding, to the current, one... crazy!

Conservation of limp vellum binding with flap and leather tackets, on reverse parchment
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Conservation of limp vellum binding with flap and leather tackets, on reverse parchment

Owner: Regional Archive of La [...]

Conservation of racing cars poster A lithograph by Spanish painter Cidón, dated 1922
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Conservation of racing cars poster
A lithograph by Spanish painter Cidón, dated 1922

Conservation of a ithographic print from 1922, a poster of the 2nd edition of the car race "Armangué Trophy", organized by the Royal Motorcycle Club of Catalonia.

Conservation, facsimile binding and dust jackets for Encyclopaedia
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Conservation, facsimile binding and dust jackets for Encyclopaedia

Some projects are extremely complex regarding the ethical professional decision making, and this is certainly one of the toughests! Rather than trimming the original beautiful bindings with marbled edges, some facsimile dust-jackets were made to protect the books, that were also restored preserving all their features.