[BCMA] Moth Balls Smell

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv]

Thank you very much for the suggestion.  We spent the morning pulling everything out and listing them for cataloging later next week.  I smell like my great grandmother right now.  LOL

Lew



> On 14,Jul, 2022, at 8:05 PM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca> wrote:
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> Dear all not a problem I have faced before, you may wish to try this  , it removes smell available from Preservation Equipment Ltd  in U.K. other conservation suppliers closer to you may have similar. Confession time , I am a British conservator with a Canadian wife and student kids in BC. So not completely au fait with what is available at hand  to you. Silica gel can have a partial pollution removing property , so immerse in gel at the right rh ,same as room might remove some smell
> interested to know if it works 
> Paul Harrison FIIC
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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 at 03:39, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca <mailto:listserv at lists.museum.bc.ca>> wrote:
> Hello gang. 
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> Here at HAMM we just received an amazing donation of military history.  Rick James (the author) has donated his father’s sea chest filled with clothing documents, souvenirs, etc from the Second World War and up through the 60s.
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> We are going to catalog them and prepare them for storage while leaving the digital image on an interactive screen. 
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> However, the person who packed this chest away for so long has put in some moth balls which permeate the museum with that smell.
> 
> Is there a way to de-mothball an object without hanging it outside on the line for the rest of the summer?
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> at your service,
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> Lewis Bartholomew
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