Our Services

Damage to the art  is often caused by adhesives, dust, residual stains, watermarks, and typical wear-and-tear due to poor storage conditions. Posters often bolster missing fragments wherein the original material has been torn or worn away. By employing our vast wealth of expertise, we can provide services to return a poster to a condition resembling its original state.

 

We can seamlessly revitalize a poster with the necessary restorations by employing methods aimed at ensuring consistency between the restored components and the original image.

 

Using only high-grade materials, such as acid-free Masa paper, cotton canvas, water based pigments, and water soluble adhesives, as well as the use of archival preservation methods, we ensure the conservation of as much of the original poster as possible.

 

We strive to make certain that materials and techniques applied to a poster are not harmful over time and are reversible so as to return it to an unrestored state.

Backing Options

Posters that are linenbacked are mounted on to acid free paper and canvas where it then undergoes any necessary restoration. Fold lines and other defects are reversed and repaired. It can be rolled for shipping and is ready for framing. Linen backing can dramatically improve the overall appearance of a poster and it can substantially increase its value. It is the preferred archival method for conserving and/or restoring a poster. Almost any flaw can be fixed so you would never know it was there.

 

Paperbacking is a very common form of restorative method used on card stock posters. It is the accepted conservative method preferred by professionals and long time collectors (as opposed to dry mounting). When a poster has been "paper backed”, it has been professionally mounted onto a piece of high quality Japanese rice paper. Almost all of the posters defects are corrected (or greatly minimized). This this process is similar to linebacking a work, but is usually reserved for card stock posters (inserts, half-sheets, lobby cards, and window cards) where the poster remains in a form similar to how it was when it was unbacked (this is personal choice and not a matter of right or wrong). Paper backed posters cannot be rolled as they are too stiff. They must be shipped flat.

 

Gelatin mounting is a new method where a poster is mounted and unmounted without any type of backing, yet allowing a base for the replacement of paper, color retouching, flattening, and cleaning. Our new technique can be applied to Lobby Cards, Rock posters and up to 40 x 60 posters.

 

All our materials are water soluble and PH neutral. We can offer a wide range of various services.