From: Gregory W. Blank (gblank@bellatlantic.net)
Date: 03/21/02-09:30:37 PM Z
You could treat the prints with thymol,...you know the stuff they put in
Listerene :-)
Seriously why not put some kind of pest replellant near your storage area or
even within the boxes...actually I believe thymol "IS" truely used.
on 3/21/02 9:14 PM, Phillip Murphy at pmurf@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hello Sandy,
>
> Have you considered a wet-mounting method? In his book "The Albumen and
> Salted Paper Book", James Reilly documents a method of wet-mounting prints
> that was developed by David Kolody. The method utilizes a wheat starch
> paste. Although an excellent method, there still exists the entomological
> problem.
> http://albumen.stanford.edu/library/monographs/reilly/chap10.html
>
> This method was modified and improved upon later at the Palladio Company
> Inc. as a mounting method for Albumen prints. The adhesive used by them was
> methyl cellulose. The material isn't a food source like wheat starch. It's
> been years since I spoke with Sura Steinberg of the Palladio Company
> regarding this, however, there was a time when I experimented with this
> method for Carbon prints and it worked very well. One advantage of this
> method of mounting is that it is easily removed in cool water. Sorry that I
> cannot offer a more detailed account of methyl cel wet mounting. There is a
> good introductory article on wet mounting by Chris Paschke at
> http://www.pictureframingmagazine.com/pdfs/mastermount/wetmount.pdf
>
> all the best,
> Phillip
>
> Sandy King wrote:
>
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