OrnamentTracker
Decide VI

Repair it, clean it, or leave it alone?

Three questions before you touch it. Most of the time the answer is a soft brush, and sometimes it is a conservator.

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1. What is wrong?
2. What is it made of?
3. Worth to you?

Recommendation

Answer the three questions and one recommendation appears here, with its reasons and its sources.

Note the condition in my tracker

Sources

  1. American Institute for Conservation, Find a Conservator
  2. American Institute for Conservation, Caring for Your Treasures
  3. Canadian Conservation Institute, CCI Notes: Care of Ceramics and Glass
  4. National Park Service, Conserve O Gram 8/1: handling and dusting ceramic and glass objects

Related reading: Cleaning, in Care & Keeping · Restoration and repair, in Care & Keeping · Caps, hooks and hangers, in Care & Keeping.

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