warburg
Registered: Dec 26, 2004
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| | April 16, 2010 at 05:07 AM | Reply with quote | #16 |
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Yes, David, it is an issue. New York is also often very humid in the summer and very dry in the winter. When I collected books, I tried all sorts of humidifiers and dehumidifiers, with mixed results. It's very difficult to regulate an apartment or house in which one actually lives. In the end, I compromised by running the air conditioners in the summer. A friend checked on them when we were away. With netsuke, some people keep bowls of water in their cabinets, but this can have an adverse (mold) as well as a beneficial effect, so I've given that up. I haven't noticed any harm to my netsuke.
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DSW90049
Registered: April 05, 2009
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| | April 30, 2010 at 02:35 PM | Reply with quote | #17 |
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I am currently shopping for a curio cabinet - Google that term; you will get lots of ideas - that will have display shelves with glass doors that lock and drawers below that also lock. Once inside, netsuke can live best in a humidity controlled environment imho.
My concern is that some netsuke have been around for hundred(s) of years in climates much more humid than S. California's - I keep them tucked away very safely but nobody, including me, can see and enjoy them, and they are meant to be seen and enjoyed.
I will post what I finally decide to get when I have it set up and see that it works . . . .
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gleeson
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| | April 30, 2010 at 02:52 PM | Reply with quote | #18 |
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i look forward to seeing what you come up with DSW.
i think i've posted examples of the large rosewood cabinets my father used.
in addition to these large ones, he had glasstop endtables with opening lids that he would display various items in. he also used glass fish tanks, and had plexi boxes custom-made.
one piece of furniture he used was an older/antique hibachi (japanese barbeque). he had a thick piece of glass cut for the top and would display items in the cavity that held the coals. i think most of them had one or two small drawers and were about the height of a coffee table.
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DSW90049
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| | May 03, 2010 at 11:44 AM | Reply with quote | #19 |
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Thanks Gleeson - you did post those - perhaps in the Storage thread, where my curio cabinet post (above) properly belongs.
Those will give me more ideas.
Once again, yet another netsuke-related thing that seems simpler at first than it really proves to be.
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