Restaurarea și conservarea unor tacâmuri din Colecția Muzeului Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Restoration and Conservation of Several Pieces of Cutlery from the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography’s Collection

Summary/Abstract: The variety of cutlery - all the objects that a person uses for eating food -depends on the people, the nation, the culture and sometimes even the religion where the cutlery is used. The most frequently used pieces in the 17th century in Europe were the spoon, the fork and the knife.An amount of 8 pieces of cutlery (spoons, knives, fork in leather case), made of iron and of brass, were restored and conserved by proper methods in the Restoration and Conservation Laboratory of the Ethnographical Museum of Transylvania.The iron corrosion products noticed on the restored cutlery are iron stable oxides that were mechanically removed. The objects were degreased and impregnated with a micro-crystalline wax, of type Paraloid B72, for preservation purpose.The brass spoons were treated by a 48-hour immersion in EDTA 1-3%solution, removing the brown copper oxides that had formed chelates. The cleaning procedure was followed by neutralization, dry cleaning, and final impregnation in view of preservation.

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