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Visual Glossary

You want to sell your object at auction or talk to a conservator about what treatment your object needs. How do you describe its condition?

Explore our visual glossary to better understand how to describe the damage that occurs to cultural materials.

Click on images for a larger, higher resolution image.

Images have been provided by AICCM members. Definitions were obtained from AICCM members and the government publication reCollections.

To contribute to this section, please send your text and images to the AICCM website editor. If possible, please send a high resolution JPEG image as well as a copy image resized to a width of 500 pixels.

Other sources:

  1. Pagliarino, Amanda. 1999. Plain Plastics. AICCM National Newsletter. Number 71, June 1999. Canberra: AICCM.

Glossary Items 

1 insect damage
2 loss
3 exit holes
4 grazing
5 shredding
6 overpaint
7 offsetting
8 off-set staining
9 off-gassing
10 mould
11 mark
12 mat burn
13 loose
14 gloss
15 galvanic corrosion
16 friable
17 frass
18 fracture
19 foxing
20 fold
 
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