Prints with foxing.

[Vinca]

I picked up an old book about the Civil War dated 1865. Surprisingly, it's worth very little, but it has some great engravings I could frame if I knew how to get rid of foxing. Apparently bleach is out. Has anyone ever tried restoring prints or might know about this?

[grasswire]

1. question

Who is the engraver?

[Vinca]

2. It doesn't say. Just that they were works of various artists

that were engraved exclusively for Abbott's Civil War. There are also some old maps that could be framed if I can figure out how to get rid of the foxing. I've got a couple of things to try. One was to simply wet the page with water and set it out in the sun. Another is using peroxide. Apparently the foxing is actually a mold of some sort - which I didn't realize. Once before I tried a light bleach mixture on something which worked very well, but when I went to read up on it the first thing I saw was "whatever you do, don't use bleach.":rofl: