Furnace puff back

Alicia Bjornson <ambjornson [at] mac__com> writes

>My colleague, Sue Shutte at Ringwood Manor (Sloatsburg Road,
>Ringwood, NJ 07456 ) needs help. The site needs clean up assistance
>after a furnace puff back has coated the historic
>collections--paintings, furniture, carpeting, books, paper,
>costumes, as well as walls and crown moulding on the whole first
>floor. ...

You might find aid in a talk in 1981.  This might be out of date
given the age of the report, but Janice Gray Armstrong and her
associates gave a talk at the 1981 AIC conference in Philadelphia on
a similar incident.  It was printed in full in the Preprints as "A
furnace puff-back: the unique problem of soot on objects and
costumes," pp. 10-19.

Niccolo Caldararo, PhD
Director and Chief Conservator
Conservation Art Service


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