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When this poster arrived, it been previously mounted on linen with  a lot of restoration.  The poster had been treated
very poorly and had just come out of long term storage.
.....It was in BAD shape!

(1) De-mounting a 6-sheet is messy, so Catherine and I rolled one of our work tables out into into the parking lot.  We soaked the entire poster face down in water, and peeled off the linen first, then the paper.  The poster had been mounted about 25 years ago using a thick, gooey, wheat paste.

(2)  Back indoors, we separated the panels,  the poster was actually in thousands of small pieces, all soaking wet, and covered with thick, slippery slime! By the time we mounted the last panel, it was like working with "poster soup"! This is extremely difficult to do, the entire job from start to finish resembles a salvage operation. You try to save as much as you can, and place it where it needs to be.  The whole time it just wants to fall apart!  Catherine (the Poster Goddess) knows what she's doing, so the poster is in good hands!

(3) Shows the poster after we remounted it and had removed all of the previous restoration.

(4)  Aaron and Chris put in two solid weeks restoring this piece, all together, we put in over 65 hours on this project.

 



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