I am clearly going to have to up my imaging game to play in the CCF space (as they say nowadays) but, for now, Scans'R'Me.
The obverse features a clear plastic coating over a textured surface to create a sense of depth, eg, that you are inside the grotto.
No, the scans do not capture this effect well (read: at all).
Q/ Is there a name for this sort of clear-coating-over-texture construction?
And, speaking of 'clear', removing the worst of the thick black gunk (one only hopes that it was chewing gum) (
Lourdes!) only revealed that the thick black gunk had been in place for a very long time.
Q/ Any reason to not continue with catastrophic cleaning, and let the poor thing begin aging again? Does it need its own trip to Lourdes?
Q/ Am I correct in calling the date/purpose/texty side of the medal "the obverse"?
TIA,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Posted 01/21/2017 5:16 pm
