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Our collection/museum has received a shipment of donated items, and several were damaged in shipment.  Do any of you have in-house or contracted services that we can consider?

Specifics:

1. Items - Antique scales of various types (e.g., postal scales, egg scales, coin scales, etc.)
2. Materials - Primarily brass; some items/parts could be iron, agate (bearings), inlaid stone, glass, paint/pinstripe
3. Quantity - Estimate 15-20 (not everything has been inventoried and inspected at this time)
4. Location - Items are in Pittsburgh and we have people who will transport them to areas like Philadelphia, Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, New York, and other eastern states

Photos will be available to anyone under consideration.

We are looking for experience with these types of items and materials, with repairs at a good quality and fair price. This is a claim that the transporter is covering.

Hi Greg,

As part of the Senator John Heinz History Center, we offer conservation services to individuals and institutions with artifacts, documents or textiles in need of specialized care.

And lucky for you, we're in Pittsburgh!

You may reach me here:

http://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/museum-conservation-center

Our collection/museum has received a shipment of donated items, and several were damaged in shipment.  Do any of you have in-house or contracted services that we can consider?

Specifics:

1. Items - Antique scales of various types (e.g., postal scales, egg scales, coin scales, etc.)
2. Materials - Primarily brass; some items/parts could be iron, agate (bearings), inlaid stone, glass, paint/pinstripe
3. Quantity - Estimate 15-20 (not everything has been inventoried and inspected at this time)
4. Location - Items are in Pittsburgh and we have people who will transport them to areas like Philadelphia, Chicago, Ohio, Michigan, New York, and other eastern states

Photos will be available to anyone under consideration.

We are looking for experience with these types of items and materials, with repairs at a good quality and fair price. This is a claim that the transporter is covering.

Art Conservators in your area can be located through "AIC - Find a Conservator" at Find a Conservator

If you are near the Pittsburgh area, we'd welcome your visit!  Our circle of conservators and experts include those who specialize in objects, works on paper, paintings, and textiles.

Hello:

It's not clear what kind of "items" need repair.  In New York, in my experience (as both a curator and a gallerist), the best conservator or repairer for paintings is Dana Cranmer; for photographs, A Better Image; and for other works on paper (drawings, prints, watercolors, et al), Paper Conservation Inc.  All have websites or are easily accessible online.

But if you need to find someone closer to Phoenix, I'd suggest that if it's for photographs, you contact the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and ask there for a referral; if for paintings or works on paper, I'd call perhaps Pinnacle West Capital Corporation in Phoenix, which has an outstanding collection of American Modernist artworks (early to mid-20th century) and thus has probably had good repair experience; or you might try the Raymond Jonson Center in Albuquerque, NM.  best of luck.  I'm sorry it happened.

Mara Miller, Managing Director

511 Gallery and 511 Projects

New York, N.Y.

If you are near the Pittsburgh area, we'd welcome your visit!  Our circle of conservators and experts include those who specialize in objects, works on paper, paintings, and textiles.

Hello:

It's not clear what kind of "items" need repair.  In New York, in my experience (as both a curator and a gallerist), the best conservator or repairer for paintings is Dana Cranmer; for photographs, A Better Image; and for other works on paper (drawings, prints, watercolors, et al), Paper Conservation Inc.  All have websites or are easily accessible online.

But if you need to find someone closer to Phoenix, I'd suggest that if it's for photographs, you contact the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and ask there for a referral; if for paintings or works on paper, I'd call perhaps Pinnacle West Capital Corporation in Phoenix, which has an outstanding collection of American Modernist artworks (early to mid-20th century) and thus has probably had good repair experience; or you might try the Raymond Jonson Center in Albuquerque, NM.  best of luck.  I'm sorry it happened.

Mara Miller, Managing Director

511 Gallery and 511 Projects

New York, N.Y.