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Been there, I can conmiserate. I have even seen tourist-market toys "preserved" within humidity/temperature regulated enclosures, expensive displays, you know. Cheap modern replicas cared for as 18th C. Brown Besses. Rare artillery pieces left to rot. Galvanism corroding touching blades of different metallic compostion. Flintlocks and Percussion Locks displayed with their hammers in either Ready or Safe positions. Red rust on ancient blades...
The reaction of the "curators" after being informed? None. That would be like admitting they committed a
gaffe. Nothing changes.
And they all limit access to their caches, as if they actually belonged to them, instead of being sources of knowledge meant to be shared.
Nuff'sed
Send pics, if you can!
Manuel Luis
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Originally Posted by fahnenschmied
Hello all, I will strive to get a photo or two, but as is all too common in the museum field - there are droves of people working with things they know absolutely nothing about, and the one person in charge of this exhibit is a former boss of mine who is the most unpleasant person I've ever worked with. Care must be taken to not alarm them that I am trying to somehow do their job, or show how incompetent they really are, etc.
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