The last few days have seen me cleaning more of the dinosaur skeleton I mentioned recently. I am pleased to report that I have been able to find at least four more glues or adhesives on the bones. The tally is building up quickly.
Firstly there is some form of yellow tinged plasticine that has clearly been used in only a couple of places, but it is there. Next we have some kind of different resin to the one previously described that forms a crystalline matrix when old, rather than just going gooey. Then we have a new kind of paint, a mild grey which was obviously intended to paint the metal armature that supported the mounted specimen, except the painted it *after* it was mounted so the fossil is also covered in paint. Finally there is something that can only really be described as green.
There are only a few bones left, but I do hope to report on another one or two and maybe we can reach fifteen with a bit of ‘luck’.
Any preparators or exhibitions people, who are other there and by some chance are reading this, I do hope you do a better job than this. In many ways it shouldn’t be hard. Or crusty. Or green.
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