Copyright 2006 Monique Hawkins
For the serious music box collector, looking after their valuable collection is important. Though preserving, conserving, and restoration sound similar, there is a difference between these concepts. Let’s discover that these differences are.
Preservation: this means ensuring that one’s music box is protected from deterioration and damage. It means taking such good care of it so that the likelihood of it being damaged is minimal.
Conservation: This means to stop and further deterioration that has already has or still is occurring and to reverse the process. Restoration: This means returning a music box to its original state. It also means there will be no attempts to improve the original by use of materials, decoration, or finish.
Always remember that conservation needs to have priority over restoration when there is deterioration going on. Deterioration is something that all music box and antique lovers need to watch out for. It is caused by problems such as high or low relative humidity, light problems, insects and other pests, and mechanical damage due to bad storage or poor handling.
Humidity is hard to regulate. However, if one tries to maintain a constant humidity for a music box, little damage
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