OrnamentTracker
Decide V

Shipping and insuring an ornament

Three questions, and the packing rule that survives the truck.

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1. What is it worth?
2. How fragile?
3. How far?

Recommendation

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

Record the sale in my tracker

Sources

  1. National Park Service, Museum Handbook, Appendix I (padding: unbuffered tissue)
  2. National Park Service, Museum Handbook, Appendix P: Curatorial Care of Ceramic, Glass, and Stone Objects
  3. National Park Service, Conserve O Gram 8/1: handling and dusting ceramic and glass objects

Related reading: Storage, in Care & Keeping.

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