Featured Victorian Punchwork Motto...Temperance Society ?

Hi Scout,
Wingel is antacid like Maalox and others. It just stops the browning and falling apart from the heavy acidic wood pulp. I can attest to saving newspaper. Anything that is hand signed or photographs you decide. Anything that is printed on wood pulp paper needs treatment or it will disappear. I have a 1942 book which is dark brown and crumbling, I was lucky enough to find a copy in 1950 and treated it. It is perfectly fine unlike it's brother. It does not brighten just treats the acidity so it does not break down. I tried it on photos that were "pasted" onto the cardboard backing and it stopped the browning. When I was in school I could not afford the archival paper so I used the soaking solution and reframed a lot of photographs with my home made archival paper. The older photographs I gently removed the backings and treated them then reattached them to the photos.
greg

 

Greg

Ephemera Von Davenport. That cheered me up! lol