Handlist description: Painted alabaster (calcite) box
Card/Transcription No.: 040-4
40 (continued)
Treatment:
Washed with water.
Removed brown resinous-like material from outside with acetone. The dark brown pitch like material from inside was partly chipped out with a small chisel & the rest softened and removed with acetone.
Mended two small broken pieces on under side of lid and re-fastened in knobs with celluloid cement.
