Antony Oliver, Conservator from Sheffield Archives has fixed our Family Heirloom. To be precise he has performed an extraordinarily delicate 21 stage repair procedure to replace the spine, repair the first eight pages with a fine Japanese tissue and replace a piece of black linen that had been used to repair a torn page with filmoplast tissue. He has also made it a bespoke box with very smart label which read: Penny Magazine, 1832.
It is not Penny's Magazine. It is, or was, my great, great Grandfather's book. The inscription inside the front cover reads
"This book is the property of George William Rea, left to him by his Grandfather Thomas George, son of Squire Henery (sic) George of Blaenavon, April 5th 1937. Signed M. T. Rea, mother of G.W. Rea."
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