MORE ON MEDAL CABINET LINING MATERIALS

An alternative I use for lining drawers in a steel cabinet I use for larger items is an archival paper that absorbs environmental contaminants (completely different technology than Intercept Shield) and is faced on one side with a non-buffered cotton layer. There are some concerns in the archival field that metals in direct contact with a buffered paper are at risk of corroding when in contact with the salts that can form as acids are neutralized, hence the production of a paper faced with cotton. It's called MicroChamber/Silversafe Enclosure Paper. (No, I suspect they were more thinking of silver-based film and the like, and not silver coins.)

See www.conservationresources.com/Main/section_15/section15_14.htm for more on the specific product.

See www.conservationresources.com/Main/S%20CATALOG/MicroChamber.htm for more on the technology.

They have various other products I find handy. For example, I make information slips for flips out of one of their archival papers.

I find the scraps that result from cutting the sheets down to drawer size handy for making index tabs to fit in my 2x2 Intercept Shield boxes.

I'm still working on a truly satisfactory way of keeping all the items from shifting around, just a bit, in the drawers as I move them in and out....

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: MEDAL CABINET LINING MATERIAL (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n29a09.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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