#bad repairs

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp4EUcF1iE0)

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'N'S Story of Slum Landlordism in West Belfast

‘N’S Story of Slum Landlordism in West Belfast

  Due to the lack of affordable or so called ‘social housing’ in West Belfast, many working class families are at the mercy of what can only be classed as ‘Slum Landlords.’  These private  landlords are raking in a fortune in Housing Benefit payments from NIHE yet most refuse to do even basic repairs such as damp proofing or rodent…

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Bibliopaths: The case of the lacquer binding |Rita Udina. Paper & Book conservation and restoration

Are we supposed to fear bibliopaths? Or maybe we should give them an award? Who are they? They are victims of bibliophile passion, people touched by an irrepressible instinct to complete, improve, or repair a book. The intention is good -from their point of view- but the subsequent results may not be so. This new section (which will have a brother called graphopaths) starts headed by a fantastic book from 1555, owned by the Alcon-Cusí Museum from the Royal Academy of Pharmacy in Catalonia. It is Dioscórides Anazarbeo from Dr. Laguna. At first glance I thought it had lacquered binding, because of the unusal shine of the leather. The lacquered touch and luster were obtained by a lacque for an instance shellac, which was wrist varnished on the leather, The varnish covers the painting spots and the inner cardboard.similar as it was done with furniture.

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TUTANKHAMUN'S BAD LUCK!

TUTANKHAMUN’S BAD LUCK!

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TUTANKHAMUN BEFORE HE LOST HIS BEARD

  Beard of Egypt’s King Tut hastily glued back on with epoxy

The blue and gold braided beard on the golden mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it became detached during cleaning, conservators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo said Wednesday. The museum, which many…

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