[Bonetools] dentures, toothbrushes, materials ID and other matters

[S O'Connor]

Dear All,

 

I am delighted to hear that Marloes's book is about to appear.  For those of
you who's Dutch is as poor as mine, I hope that the following will prove
useful until an English language version can be produced.  

 

The publication O'Connor, S. 1987. The identification of osseous and
keratinaceous materials at York. Archaeological Bone, Antler and Ivory
United Kingdom Institute for Conservation 5: 9-21, has been out of print for
many years.  However there is now a PDF of this linked to my staff web page
at Bradford or directly at

http://www.brad.ac.uk/archenvi/research/BCRS/pubs.php 

 

Some of you may know that I specialise in the identification and
conservation of objects made in osseous and keratinous materials.  I have
been monitoring bonetools mail for a few years but have been a silent member
of the list as I have been working on a five year research project on the
radiography of cultural materials.  I have continued to work on bone etc.
from a number of sites and museum collections and to deliver continuing
professional development courses on the identification of these materials.
However, now that this is finished and the PhD is out of the way, I hope to
become more active in this field once again.  I hope soon to be able to give
you details of the next osseous and keratinous materials identification
short course which should be running early next year.  I am particularly
involved at the moment in looking at the use of these materials as inlays on
a range of objects, such as guns and furniture.  I am also involved in a
grant application to set up a multi-disciplinary, ivories research cluster -
more of that if we get our funding.

 

Here is a publication relating to false teeth and dentures which may be of
interest.

 

Anderson T, O'Connor S and Ogden A, 2004, An early eighteenth-century
elephant ivory denture from Rochester, Kent. Antiquity, vol 78, no 302,
858-864.

 

 

To add to the bristle and bone toothbrush information.  I still have one of
these I purchased, newly made, when I was a student in the 1970s from a shop
in the Burlington Arcade in London.  This brush was not for dental hygiene
but for my conservation tool kit.  The problem with plastic toothbrushes is
that they dissolve in organic solvents but the bone and bristle ones go on
for ever!

 

Meeting Alice in Hungary last week was inspirational and I look forward to
getting to know more of you at future meetings.  Alice - I will be in touch
soon with the things I promised to send you.

 

Greetings to you all,

 

Sonia

 

Dr Sonia O'Connor FIIC ACR
Research Fellow in Conservation
Archaeological Sciences
Division of AGES

University of Bradford
Bradford
West Yorkshire BD7 1DP

Tel 01274 236498 (office)
Tel 01274 235210 (lab.)
Fax 01274 235190 

 

X-Radiography of Textiles, Dress and Related Materials by Sonia O'Connor and
Mary BrooksCheck it out at  <http://books.elsevier.com/?isbn=0750666323>
http://books.elsevier.com/uk//Elsevier/uk/subindex.asp?maintarget=&isbn=0750
666323

 

 

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