what I offer...
I provide an on-site service to assess the lightfastness of high value and/or characteristic museum, gallery, library and archival material. With my state of the art portable equipment and substantial collections management and research experience in this area I can offer the following services:
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Bruce Ford speaking at the CRCC 50th Anniversary Conference in Paris October 2013
Establishing the spontaneous reoxidation in air of photoreduced iron gall ink. This project documented the Prussian blue like response of iron gall inks to light - that is that anoxic conditions accelerate these inks' response to light and maintain them in the faded (photoreduced) state. This has implications for the practice of housing historic documents in hypoxic or anoxic cases as is most famously the case for the US Charters of Freedom documents.
Ford, B. 2014. The accelerated light fading of iron gall inks in air, hypoxia and near-anoxia. In ICOM-CC 17th Triennial Conference Preprints, Melbourne, 15–19 September 2014, ed. J. Bridgland, art. 0604, 8 pp. Paris: International Council of Museums. (ISBN 978-92-9012-410-8) |