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	<title>Comments on: Ruminations on Safely Sealing Daguerreotypes</title>
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		<title>By: Andy Stockton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andy Stockton</dc:creator>
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		<description>One of the advantages of being a neophyte is that I can post ideas that would make an experienced daguerreotypist shudder or perhaps just laugh. So in the spirit of provoking discussion (or at least providing a target) here are a few (weird) thoughts I have had on the subject:

1) Seal the entire dag in casting resin
2) If having the resin touch the developed surface destroys the dag, put a glass cover over the image and seal it well enough to keep out the resin and then seal that whole package in resin. It sure wouldn&#039;t look antique.
3) Seal the dag inside a glass container, melt it shut. (How much heat can they take? Any?
4) Use helium or nitrogen to displace the air before sealing as a way to drive out oxygen and sulfer compounds. Less reactive atmosphere means less corrosion.
5) Put the dag in a jar and immerse it in a non-reactive fluid - optical grade mineral oil maybe - the play of light through the fluid changes the experience of viewing the image.
6) Instead of vacuum sealing them - vacuums are notoriously hard to maintain, seal them while they are in a super-dehumidified chamber - not sure how to achieve that simply however.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the advantages of being a neophyte is that I can post ideas that would make an experienced daguerreotypist shudder or perhaps just laugh. So in the spirit of provoking discussion (or at least providing a target) here are a few (weird) thoughts I have had on the subject:</p>
<p>1) Seal the entire dag in casting resin<br />
2) If having the resin touch the developed surface destroys the dag, put a glass cover over the image and seal it well enough to keep out the resin and then seal that whole package in resin. It sure wouldn&#8217;t look antique.<br />
3) Seal the dag inside a glass container, melt it shut. (How much heat can they take? Any?<br />
4) Use helium or nitrogen to displace the air before sealing as a way to drive out oxygen and sulfer compounds. Less reactive atmosphere means less corrosion.<br />
5) Put the dag in a jar and immerse it in a non-reactive fluid &#8211; optical grade mineral oil maybe &#8211; the play of light through the fluid changes the experience of viewing the image.<br />
6) Instead of vacuum sealing them &#8211; vacuums are notoriously hard to maintain, seal them while they are in a super-dehumidified chamber &#8211; not sure how to achieve that simply however.</p>
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