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<p>[QUOTE="PDProps, post: 163816, member: 2156"]Hello All,</p><p><br /></p><p>Once again I find myself in a quandary, so once again I am turning to you amazing folk.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a bit of a thing for maps, so when I saw this I had to have it. I've been sitting on it for a few years now, and I have to figure out what to do with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been presented with 3 options.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is just to sell it as it is. Searching around the internet I have not been able to find anything that resembles this little gem. Dating from the Golden Age of railways, and the Golden Age of the Empire, it is an amazing historical document. In real terms the staples are starting to oxidize and are discolouring the paper. </p><p><br /></p><p>The other option would be to conserve it. Through my work I have connections to paper restorers and binders. The basic conservation would be to replace the staples with non reactive ones. Additional steps would be cleaning, and ultimately de-acidification.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third option is to piece the thing out. The front cover is a beautiful map of area serviced by the railroad. Inside are guides to various tourist sites, hotel advertising, menus, tour prices and layouts of the various passenger cars. Doing this would allow me to clean and stablise the important pages.</p><p><br /></p><p>What would you, fellow Antiquers, do?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/8ac7Xpn" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/8ac7Xpn" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/8ac7Xpn.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/VW4H2K1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/VW4H2K1" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/VW4H2K1.jpg?1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/Wzaxvuv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/Wzaxvuv" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Wzaxvuv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="http://imgur.com/aqrrAF6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://imgur.com/aqrrAF6" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/aqrrAF6.jpg?1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PDProps, post: 163816, member: 2156"]Hello All, Once again I find myself in a quandary, so once again I am turning to you amazing folk. I have a bit of a thing for maps, so when I saw this I had to have it. I've been sitting on it for a few years now, and I have to figure out what to do with it. I have been presented with 3 options. The first is just to sell it as it is. Searching around the internet I have not been able to find anything that resembles this little gem. Dating from the Golden Age of railways, and the Golden Age of the Empire, it is an amazing historical document. In real terms the staples are starting to oxidize and are discolouring the paper. The other option would be to conserve it. Through my work I have connections to paper restorers and binders. The basic conservation would be to replace the staples with non reactive ones. Additional steps would be cleaning, and ultimately de-acidification. The third option is to piece the thing out. The front cover is a beautiful map of area serviced by the railroad. Inside are guides to various tourist sites, hotel advertising, menus, tour prices and layouts of the various passenger cars. Doing this would allow me to clean and stablise the important pages. What would you, fellow Antiquers, do? [url=http://imgur.com/8ac7Xpn][img]http://i.imgur.com/8ac7Xpn.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/VW4H2K1][img]http://i.imgur.com/VW4H2K1.jpg?1[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/Wzaxvuv][img]http://i.imgur.com/Wzaxvuv.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://imgur.com/aqrrAF6][img]http://i.imgur.com/aqrrAF6.jpg?1[/img][/url][/QUOTE]
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