Thread: What's the best way to seal a label on an old hone?

Has not chipped or peeled off any of mine. I use it mostly to seal JNATS now, but did seal a rare labeled Charnley Forest label and a few others a while back.

Guidelines for the Care of Works on Paper with Cellulose Acetate Lamination

For those interested...

For those that want to know but not read... They typically treated the paper in a deacidification process before lamination, as such the paper primarily focusses on the degradation of the laminating process and components. However, the acid issue is definitely present with old hone labels. Many sealed labels appear off colored. However, this could have been from age before sealing or the sealig agent itself.

In the end they only say that the paper becomes brittle and offcolored if not treated for acid issues, they don't state if it would degrade the paper beyond that. Brittleness doesn't really matter with a stone backer, eh?

I used golden archival varnish on my one and only labeled Escher Keeps the water away but otherwise you don't even know the label is sealed. There was an older post about it here and a gent gave some pretty thorough instructions about it. Cant locate the thread at the moment. Regarding nail polish, an experienced user/seller told me he had few of his labels bleed through.

Originally Posted by dinnermint

I have been trying to find the article, but someone wrote about issues with older paper being laminated for archiving historical documents.

The problem they found was that the acid in the paper wasn't able to dissipate in air and caused yellowing and degradation of the document, at a faster rate than non-laminated documents. From what I understand, it's similar cell rot in a sealed environment.

It was popular in the '70's, so many documents took 15ish years to show this issue. I know its a long time, but if we want several generations down the road to see an Escher label...

THIS is why I have yet to seal any of my labels. I need to wait a few decades to find out how those sealed labels turn out.

Originally Posted by dinnermint

Guidelines for the Care of Works on Paper with Cellulose Acetate Lamination

For those interested...

For those that want to know but not read... They typically treated the paper in a deacidification process before lamination, as such the paper primarily focusses on the degradation of the laminating process and components. However, the acid issue is definitely present with old hone labels. Many sealed labels appear off colored. However, this could have been from age before sealing or the sealig agent itself.

In the end they only say that the paper becomes brittle and offcolored if not treated for acid issues, they don't state if it would degrade the paper beyond that. Brittleness doesn't really matter with a stone backer, eh?

Cell rot for my archived documents or hone labels....

Observations on the Use of Bookkeeper® Deacidification Spray

I would think deacidification wouldn't be a terrible idea before sealing, however the "bookkeepers" brand seems to leave a film that affects the colors of the ink. Thus is a result of a magnesium precipitate. I imagine you could brush it off? Although, I doubt anyone is willing to risk an Escher label to see what happens...