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SMALLCORP NEWS
Products for the Display, Conservation and Storage
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Padihershef, a 2,500 year old Egyptian mummy, was recently moved to a brand new SmallCorp case at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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Greetings!
Welcome to SmallCorp News, our bi-monthly effort to stay in touch and share some of the valuable tips and information we've accumulated in our 40-plus years of manufacturing museum-quality display cases and picture frames. If you find the newsletter useful, please feel free to pass it along to a colleague who might benefit from it, and if you have suggestions on improvements or future topics, don't hesitate to let me know. Thank you again for your association with SmallCorp, we couldn't do it without you. Best regards, Mike Dunphy
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Framers Love...
...our welded steel frames. They come with a natural mill scale finish, with the weld bead left on, or ground off.
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We Think Framers will Love...
...our new powdercoat color. We found the color you've all been asking for, and it's perfect.
Contact us for a new powdercoat chip chart including Perfect White.
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Food for Thought
What will happen to the collection at The Detroit Institute of Arts?
Should the city sell its valuable art treasures to reduce its debt? What happens in Detroit could set a precedent for other cities facing financial crises.
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Blowing our own Horn
We recently delivered an archival exhibit case outfitted with LED lighting to Massachusetts General Hospital, to house the institution's 2,500 year old mummy, Padihershef. The mummy is one of the oldest in the United States; it was given to the hospital in 1823.
Before moving Padihershef into his new home in the Ether Dome, a surgical amphitheater where the first public surgery using anesthetic was performed in 1846, conservators gave him a minor cleaning and a "facelift". They also made an unexpected discovery.
Also in Boston, we recently delivered several cases to the Old State House for an exhibit hosted by The Bostonian Society, which includes the historic and highly-sensitive 1763 Treaty of Paris on loan from the French government.
The Treaty case uses SPD SmartGlass technology, which darkens the glass when visitors are not present, and lightens it for viewing with the push of a button. Even with LED spotlights, the case will dramatically reduce the amount of light to which the document is exposed.
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(800) 392-9500 (413-772-0889 outside the U.S.A.)
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