A variant Oddy test procedure for evaluating materials used in storage and display cases

Studies in Conservation

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 86-90

  Bamberger, Joseph A ^a,b   Howe, Ellen G ^b   Wheeler, George ^c  

^a SUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0042128337     PISSN: 00393630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/sic.1999.44.2.86     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. ODDY, W.A., 'An unsuspected danger in display', Museums Journal 73 (1973) 27-28.
2. ODDY, W.A., 'The corrosion of metals on display' in Conservation in Archaeology and the Applied Arts, IIC, London (1975) 235-237.
3. GREEN, L.R., and THICKETT, D., 'Testing materials for use in the storage and display of antiquities - a revised methodology', Studies in Conservation 40 (1995) 145-152.
4. Based on a training symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1993).
5. THICKETT, D., 'Evaluation of sealing methods for the Oddy test', British Museum Conservation Research Section internal report no. 1993/24 (1993).
6. THICKETT, D., British Museum Conservation Research Group, private communication (1996).