Evaluation of cleaning treatments for tarnished silver: The conservator's perspective

Several treatments appear in the bibliography to clean the tarnished silver. However, the information about the aspect and efficiency of the cleanings is spread or not completely detailed in these works. With this purpose, a worldwide survey has been carried out to identify of the most common treatm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Palomar Sanz, Teresa, Ramírez Barat, Blanca, Cano Díaz, Emilio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/172486
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/172486
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conservation
Silver Sulfide
Tarnishing
Cleaning treatments
Silver
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Sumario:Several treatments appear in the bibliography to clean the tarnished silver. However, the information about the aspect and efficiency of the cleanings is spread or not completely detailed in these works. With this purpose, a worldwide survey has been carried out to identify of the most common treatments for cleaning tarnished silver and the personal experience of professionals about the frequency of use, the cleaning efficiency, the surface appearance, the application speed, the difficulty and the applicability. This paper contains the results of this survey.