Archive
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Caring for Rare and Valuable Books
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Cleaning Antique Furniture: Dust Cementation
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Antique Furniture and Central Heating
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Looking after Decorative Ceramics
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Storing Vintage Clothing
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Caring for Silver: Do's and Don'ts
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Westminster Review Article
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Interview with David Lilly: Founder of Simply Stained Glass
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Antique Tortoiseshell, Ivory, Bone & Mother of Pearl: Cleaning and Storing
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Maintaining & Displaying Tapestries and Wall Hangings
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Helping to care for the Werhner Collection (The Magnificent Decorative Art Collection of Julius Werhner - founding member of the De Beers's Diamond Company)
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Conservation Cleaning at Down House; the Historic Home of Charles Darwin
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Helping to clean Eltham Palace: One of London's Greatest Architectural Treasures
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Why Humidity is so important to Antique Furniture
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Cleaning & Protecting an Original London Underground Sign
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The Hobbit & Caring for Rare Books revived....
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Cleaning a Collection of Marble Busts
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Chandelier Cleaning
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Decorative Plasterwork: Dust, Dirt & Stain Removal
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Training Museum Volunteers
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Helping to care for Kenwood House
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Cleaning a Marble Statue of Dr Hunter
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Cleaning the Great Halls at Audley End & Eltham Palace
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Royal Academy of Music - Picture Frame Cleaning
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Preparing Dog Collars for Exhibition at Leeds Castle
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Eltham Palace - Re-opening
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Inner Temple Library
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The House of St Barnabas, Soho
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Cleaning Alabaster - Eton College Chapel
Blog & Projects
The Hobbit & Caring for Rare Books revived....
As the film The Hobbit continues to pack cinemas around the country, and attention is again focused on JRR Tolkien's extraordinary works, it seems like an apt time to revive one of our first blogs; Caring for Rare & Valuable Books.
In our original blog, we talked about a client of ours who wanted his collection of rare books cleaned and protected, and we explained how we went about this.
In an interesting aside, we actually recently cleaned and boxed a few additions to this client's collection, including two letters from Tolkien himself to a "Mr Jackson" regarding a stage production of The Hobbit. How cool is that! Maybe Peter Jackson would be pleased to know that a namesake and fellow "back-room boy of the drama" actually got to correspond with the great man.
More photos of the letters are on our Facebook page.
Click here to read the original blog.