Re: [BKARTS] Book Board identification

[Dave Allen <allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,
What you have discovered is tar board. as per Etherington & Roberts:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt3456.html
Dave Allen

Beddall Bookbinding Conservation & Restoration
840 Snowdrop Ave. Victoria BC V8Z 2N4
(250)888-9380    http://www.Bookbinder.ca



David Amstell wrote:
> Can anyone identify this book board, and of what it might be comprised?
>
> The boards come from an early C20th Shakespeare, which is being 
> recased. The cloth has been stripped off, revealing boards which are 
> pitch black in color, about 1.5 mm thick, very flexible, no apparent 
> grain.  They have a coarse appearance and a surface feel of bitumin.  
> They burn and bubble up with a flame, with the faint smell of an early 
> plastic.  Looks like a fibrous substance impregnated with tar.
>
> Doesa anyone know of this board?
>
> David
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