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Women Love Diamonds! Episode 4

This is the final post in our longest running blog project. I intended to finish months ago, and then the computer and I got into a fight. I lost patience and am only now returning to finish off telling you about this incredible project! Since we have been chronicling the conservation and restoration of this 1927 silent movie poster for more than two years, I want to give you a brief overview of where we started and how far we've come before I reveal the end result. This poster literally started in pieces. Our first two blog posts give a complete description of what we went through to put it back together: Episode 1 and Episode 2 .  Back to the very beginning...  Figuring out what we actually had to work with and realizing we were missing the entire middle.  After a whole lot of work, the poster was finally linen backed and restoration began. Our proud fearless leader!    Episode 3 goes into more depth about the process that Ravi went through to find a r