Test your resto detection skills !!!

[Arty]

Took some macro pictures... try to detect what was done to the book.

 

First one is easy... interior cover top corner

 

2. interior cover bottom staple area

pic1 try this first

pic2

pic3 check this if you still can't figure it out

 

3. interior cover top staple area

 

this one is tricky, but restorer made one mistake...

 

Amateur or professional resto and why?

[THE_BEYONDER]

Cool thread Arty. I could definately use some RESTO 101.

[Hobo]

First looks to be a tear-seal.

 

Second looks like the staple holes have been filled in with Japan paper or something that gives the married edge of the paper that coarse look. The book may have been water "float cleaned."

 

Very cool thread.

[arexcrooke]

I concur. I think the first is a tear seal, and one of the others looks like there has been tape there and then removed.

I think we need to have more threads like this as I have virtually zero resto detection ability.

Arex

[Silver Surfer]

I was going to say amateur but it looks like there was some tape removal work done on the interior page which I don't think too many amateurs would try to take on? I want to say that some paper was added but it doesn't look uniform, maybe a small piece was added and the rest has been tear sealed.

[FFB]

Took some macro pictures... try to detect what was done to the book.

 

First one is easy... interior cover top corner

 

Filled in a missing spine corner. Amateur, because he did not match the replacement paper with the original.

 

2. interior cover bottom staple area

pic1 try this first

pic2

pic3 check this if you still can't figure it out

 

Reinforced staples/filled in missing chunks with Japan paper. Amateur (even though archival materials were used), because he used way too much and left tidelines with the paste. The repair is obvious.

 

3. interior cover top staple area

this one is tricky, but restorer made one mistake...

 

More staple reinforcement. Still used too much paper and left tidelines from the paste by using too much paste. (I'd consider that two mistakes.) Also amateur, though using archival materials.

[Mr. Zipper]

Is your server down? I can't get any of the images.

[Stronguy]

Same here.

[Arty]

Server is down I don't know what's going on, but it's just.temporary so wait till tomorrow...

 

I'll comment those pics when they are back online, but FFB pretty much told everything already.