Conservation of amber at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA: Regalrez^® 1126 as a consolidant and adhesive for amber and copal

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the following people for their generosity in sharing their knowledge and their priceless amber collection to be used as reference materials for provenance analysis: David A. Grimaldi and Paul C. Nascimbene (Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History), Edith Stout and Sarjit Kaur (Amber Research Laboratory, Vassar College). Analysis of nearly 90 samples could not have been completed without the help of Janie Woo, volunteer at the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tremendous thanks are due to Donna Strahan, objects conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for her invaluable guidance and support throughout the research.

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筆者感謝以下人士慷慨分享知識，並提供珍貴的琥珀藏品作為產地分析的參考素材：David A. Grimaldi 及Paul C. Nascimbene（美國自然歷史博物館無脊椎動物學部）、Edith Stout 及 Sarjit Kaur（Vassar College琥珀研究實驗室）。另外衷心感謝大都會藝術博物館科學研究部義工 Janie Woo 的義務協助，讓我們順利完成接近90件樣本的分析工作，以及大都會藝術博物館藏品修復員徐得娜在研究期間所提供的寶貴指導和支持。