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Help with adhesive stains on poster

Wasn't sure where to ask questions or find information about this - let me know if there is another subreddit I should pose this question to.

Years ago I hung up this poster with these weird stretchy rubbery adhesive squares, but over time they have left these oily looking stains on the poster, bleeding through to the front. I don't really remember the name of the product but I seem to remember them being labelled as "archival quality" lol. The out of focus thing on my finger is the adhesive, and the rest of the funk is just dust. There is some blue tack residue on the back too, but as that isn'tt visible on the front I don't think it's relevant.

Is there anything I can do to get rid of these stains, or is it cooked? I definitely don't have the skills to do anything to really mask it. The poster itself is kind of a magazine cover quality - I have another poster I used these on that is more cardstock-like where these stains didn't appear.

I saw that vinegar is supposed to get rid of oil stains on paper, but I am worried about ruining the poster if I do that, plus I am not sure if this would even count as an oil stain.

u/loganmoose — 10 days ago

Need help perserving rare / valuable 1970's movie posters on a budget

A family member is moving and gave me their movie poster collection they collected as a teenager back in the 70's, he had them rolled up in cardboard tube.

There is about 15 of them, and some of them are quite valuable and not reprints.

  • star wars series A for the 1977 theatrical release

  • Dr. Strangelove how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

  • Deathwish

  • Rocky Horror Picture Show

  • The great escape

  • Dirty Harry

  • Apocalypse now

  • A james bond (moore I think? I can't remember)

  • Das Boot

and some other ones I can't recall off the top of my head. These are all the original movie posters shipped to theatres for display during the movies run in theatres, and were originally folded. They've literally just been sitting in a cardboard tube the last 50 years as my family member never got around making the man cave of his dreams lol, and he is moving away for retirement in his 70's now and thought I'd like them for my mini movie den.

The star wars poster alone is worth about 2-3k, and some of the other posters are in the 800-1500$ range. The rest are in the 200-300$ range, but also cool imo because of how old they are and I would like to keep them safe!

I'm broke as hell right now, but I want to make sure I perserve them properly (And on a budget).

I looked into framing, but since they are 27" x 41" (41" no longer being a standard framing size) it is expensive as hell, about 250$ per frame at michaels. Then I'm reading about how different materials can damage the posters over time, acids, low quality glass, that you need UV protection.

I'm really confused, and if anyone can shed some light on how I can perserve these properly I would really appreciate it!!!

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u/Fuzzyfoot12345 — 9 days ago
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Help with sculpture

Hello, my workplace has this sculpture in front of the building and they really want to clean it and paint it by themselves, so I'm looking for help with recognizing what material it's made of so they don't damage it. For me it looks like some kind of wood, but I'm not 100% sure

Also if it gets recognized, I would really appreciate help with what we can use on it

Let me know if some other pictures are needed!

u/No_Concern8517 — 12 days ago