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
Preparing Dog Collars for Exhibition at Leeds Castle
Last year we were very pleased to assist in preparing part of Leeds Castle’s famous dog collar collection for exhibition. Their collection spans five centuries and contains over 130 dog collars – ranging from the extremely ornate and beautiful, to the down right fearsome. The sixteenth-century German spiked iron collars are truly something to behold!
After being on display at the castle in Kent for over three decades the collection was removed from public view in 2013 so that a comprehensive conservation program for the collars could be carried out.
An interim exhibition of some of the collars - ‘It’s a Dog’s Life’ - was put on display at the castle last year and we were asked to clean and prepare a selection of collars for this event.
Over the course of a few months one of our conservation housekeepers worked on site readying all the collars you can see pictured here. (Directly above are before and after pictures of a leather and brass collar.)
The full conservation program for the collars is nearing completion and the whole collection will once again go on display at Leeds Castle in March 2015.
Many thanks to Leeds Castle for providing most of these images.