Caring for Your Family Treasures: Heritage Preservation
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Book Overview
A guide to the conservation of family antiques, including books and documents, clocks and watches, silverware, jewellery, musical instruments, military mementos, dolls, teddy bears and toy soldiers. The book also considers security and insurance issues and has cleaning and storage advice.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0810929090
ISBN13:9780810929098
Release Date:September 2000
Publisher:Harry N. Abrams
Length:162 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 7.8" x 9.0"
Age Range:13 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 8 to Postsecondary
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Super How To Do It Book For Preserving Your Past !!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This is a most useful, new (year 2000) 164 page, fully illustrated guide to preserving your family treasures. All of the information in this lovely guidebook was approved by a panel of experts. Topics range from protecting photos, film and videos, movies, paintings, clothing, furniture, glassware and musical instruments, to dolls, toys, natural items and military things, and more. The chapters are very concise, yet complete. Instructions are complete, and simple to follow. It even covers security and insurance of items. The time to begin preserving the items is now, and this book really shows you how. Add it to your library.
I saved my family treasures
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
This book is a treasure and a saviour. I was able to preserve my family heritage using advise and techniques I learned from this book. It describes how to salvage and protect everything from paper items to military mementos. I cannot recommend it enough for anyone who is interested in keeping their family's keepsakes in good shape. Kudos to those who put this book together. It was as if they were talking to me!
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