Re: [GBW] saving original endsheets

[Leslie Couture <blusterer@xxxxxxxxx>]

The books is part of our Texas Collection, c1936, with decorated endsheets (there is a map of the area described in the book and a memorial faceplate).  I started out using my teflon lifting spatula to up part of the board, but the damage began when I got to the edge where the paper meets the bookcloth.  I next tried to use a microspatula, but I'm still leaving a layer of the paper onto the cloth which is making the outer layer much thinner.

Leslie

"Peter D. Verheyen" <verheyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tell us more. Age of book/paper, decorated/plain, what are you using to try
to remove?

Peter

At 09:04 AM 5/19/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>My problem: I have been unsuccessful at removing the endsheets on a
>book. They are beginning to tear. I think that I have been too timid in
>removing them and have caused this. I would still like to save them. Any
>suggestions in removing endsheets that are stubborn and torn? Or is it a
>better idea to just finish tearing them off and replacing them with a good
>paper? Someone suggested that I try to make a color copy of them, but I
>do not know of a place that offers archival copying in my location
>(Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas). Or if that is a good idea at all.
>
>thanks,
>Leslie


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Peter D. Verheyen
Bookbinder & Conservator, PA - AIC

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