Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
23rd Annual Meeting in St. Paul, Minnesota
June 10, 1995

 

 

Compiled by Julie Lauffenburger and Virginia Greene

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Postprints abstracts and articles

• Program Chair’s Foreword
  Julie Lauffenburger

• Three chairs for leather conservation
  Brian R. Howard and April H. Berry

• How would you mount a Rambaramp?
  Christine Del Re and Paul Countryman

• What a relief! A practical, inexpensive approach to the conservation of a large XIX Dynasty sandstone stela
  Christina Krumrine and Lisa Kronthal

• Structural treatment of a monumental Japanese bronze eagle from the Meiji period
  Marianne Russell-Marti and Robert F. Marti

• The analysis and reconstruction of Islamic glass-frit ceramics, and comparative methods of desalination
  Richard Barden

• Desalination parameters for Harappan ceramics
  Katherine A. Holbrow, Emily Kaplan and Harriet F. Beaubien

• The effects of desalination on archaeological ceramics with evidence of use
  Jo Willey

• Non-adhesive fills for wood
  Tamsen Fuller

• Compensating for losses in design with decals
  Gregory S. Byrne

• A translucent wax-resin fill material for the compensation of losses in objects
  Susanne Gänsicke and John W. Hirx

• Heat-fused resins or “resin sticks” for use as reinforcing elements or dowels in the structural treatment of objects
  Peter S. Champe

• Testing erasers used to clean marble surfaces
  Jane Williams and Julie Lauffenburger

• Field testing webbing clothes moth pheromone traps: Methods and results
  Christine Del Re and David Mueller

• A preliminary report on conservation research into the rural art parks of Wisconsin
  Anton Rajer, Dr. Harry Alden, and Dr. John Hackney

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• Using Gore-Tex fabric to protect outdoor sculpture
  Terri Schindel

Gilded Metal Surfaces Symposium abstracts

• Symposium Chair’s Foreword
  Terry Drayman-Weisser

• A history of gilding with particular reference to statuary
  Andrew Oddy

• Gold is in the eye of the beholder
  Ursula M. Franklin

• Corrosion chemistry of gilded silver and copper
  Lyndsie Selwyn

• A review of gilding techniques in South America
  David A. Scott

• The gilding of metals in China
  Paul Jett and W.T. Chase

• Archaeological gilded metals excavated in Japan
  Ryu Murakami

• Gilded archaeological metals: Celtic, Romano-British and Saxon
  Kilian Anheuser and Peter Northover

• Gilded bronze sculpture in the Athenian Agora
  Alice Boccia Paterakis

• Gilded silver from ancient Nubia
  Susanne Gänsicke and Richard Newman

• The use of cold mercury amalgam gilding in Byzantium
  Pete Dandridge

• Gilding on metal after the Renaissance: A survey of Western techniques, with conservation notes
  P. Andrew Lins

• On the use of mercury compounds in gold electroplating
  P. Andrew Lins and Sally Malenka

• Architectural gilding on exterior metal: An overview of materials and methodology
  Michael W. Kramer

• Gilding turn-of-the-century monumental sculptures: D.C. French’s quest to
  preserve or to beautify?
  Linda Merk-Gould

• All that glitters is not gold: Other surfaces that appear to be gilded
  Jonathan Thornton

• The fabrication of gilt bronze mounts for French furniture of the 18th century
  Brian Considine

• Electrolytic treatment of gilt silver tarnished by atmospheric corrosion
  Cécile Vacquié, Jean-Michel Blengino, and Christian Degrigny

• Richard Lippold’s The Sun: Investigation and treatment
  Jack Flotte and Jeatn Dommermuth

• Evaluation of cleaning methods and materials on faux-gilded decorative surfaces
  Richard Wolbers