Antiques, their restoration and preservation / by A. Lucas.

  • Alfred Lucas
Date:
[1932]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Antiques, their restoration and preservation / by A. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The literature dealing with methods of treating antique objects, with a view to their restoration and preservation, is very scanty, and all that exists on the subject are the few books and pamphlets mentioned in the Bibliography at the end of the present volume, together with occasional scattered articles in scientific journals and brief notes in archaeological reports. The author, therefore, who has made a special study of the subject, and who for two seasons has been helping with the cleaning and preservation of the objects from the tomb of Tut-ankhamun, has ventured to write a small book in the hope that it may be useful to archaeologists, museum curators, collectors and others. The book is admittedly elementary, and the author has endeav¬ oured to be as simple and non-technical as possible. He has also tried to be definite, and where there are a number of different methods to indicate the best. It must be remembered, however, that no one remedy can be of universal application and that each case should be treated as a separate and special study,
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