RESTORATION: BEFORES & afters

   MANSFIELD'S HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY
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BEFORE: Damaged and in pieces. AFTER: Fully restored, new boards.

c. BARKER'S GENEVA BIBLE, 1595

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 BEFORE: Clasps were ripped from the original boards.   AFTER: Compound oak dovetail blocks were made and set into original boards.
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BEFORE: New pigskin straps with clasps are attached to the restoration. AFTER: New hand dyed calfskin insets applied to the finished job.

AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS PRINTER'S DESK BOOK, 1911

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BEFORE: Block is in five pieces, cloth detaching from boards. AFTER 1: Block re-consolidated. AFTER 2: Block is re-sewn through a linen jaconette, original boards reattached.
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BEFORE: Original cloth desiccated and detaching from boards. DURING: Original cloth laminated to muslin layer. AFTER: Original cloth re-attached to original boards.
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                       BEFORE: Damaged original end papers.          AFTER: New end papers using cir. 1920 Italian silk screened paper.

STOCKTON, ca. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS

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                       BEFORE: Original damaged Bible.                                      AFTER: Finished leather and gold re-conditioning.
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                BEFORE: Original damaged corner.                                         AFTER: Finished corner re-consolidation detail.

BAYLISS LEDGER ARCHIVE VOL. I, 1906

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                       BEFORE: Original vermin destruction.                      AFTER: Reconstructed text block, sewn over tapes.
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                      BEFORE: Ledger folio, original paper loss at join.       AFTER: Japanese paper infill, restoring paper loss.

DECIMO Civil War BIBLE, 1864

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                     BEFORE: New leather being applied to original boards.                 AFTER: Finished Bible.

MONTANA POSTCARD ALBUM, 1907

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                        BEFORE: Original desiccated materials.                   AFTER: Text block binding, and boards restored.
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                          BEFORE: Mold damaged album.                                     AFTER: Albums boards and paper restored.