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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaurieMc, post: 11883589, member: 98364&quot;]Thanks for the response 2manybooks. You&#039;ve given me a fair bit to follow up on. There is our local museum. Just a small museum run by volunteers. I&#039;m in a rural area, a long way from the big cities but I may even get some advice about a paper conservator from someone at the museum.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Does the book have any moldy odor?</i> It smells old. I really don&#039;t know what mold might smell like but there&#039;s no strongly different smell. It&#039;s not what I&#039;d call musty. The stained pages do not smell noticeably different from the clean ones.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Did the cardboard box or other items in the storage room show evidence of mold?</i> I wouldn&#039;t have noticed any staining on the box and it&#039;s long gone in the rubbish. The room has some mold on the upper wall which is the outside wall of the house which is also on the south side of the house facing away from the sun. I&#039;m in Australia.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>What are the conditions of display now, and how long has it been there?</i> The Bible is closed up, displayed on a small table near an internal wall. The staining comes in batches. That is: half an inch of pages are stained and then it&#039;s OK for the next inch and so on. It&#039;s been on display for about six months. I don&#039;t know how long the staining has been there. Maybe years unnoticed. I saw it the other week when I opened it at a random place and didn&#039;t know what to do. I see someone has used the Bible for pressing a small number of flowers. Not a good idea but apparently not related to the stained sections. I have no idea whether the flowers were pressed back in Scotland where the Bible originated or later here in Australia.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>You might try testing a small area gently with an eraser, to see if it is just a surface phenomenon rather than a stain.</i> I&#039;ll see if I can find an eraser in the morning and give this a try.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s worth noting that when the weather cools off in a couple of months I&#039;ll have the air conditioner going a good bit with warm air circulating over the Bible from the other side of the room.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll let you know how I go with the eraser and the museum people.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Laurie.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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