Doin' dishes

["Batja Bell" <bbell@newarkmuseum.org>]

Hi all, and please excuse the cross-posting:

 

Our museum's acquired the archive of a former major porcelain manufacturer, and we are in the process of cataloguing and moving the collection to our building.

 

This includes some 1000+ of flat plates, and we need some way to pack them for local, one-way transport while keeping the number identification tags which are associated with them from becoming separated. 

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Are there any kind of archival-quality, non-abrasiove dish 'envelopes' or separators available commercially that can be used to contain and separate the plates so they can travel vertically, while accommodating the tags?   I don't have the time or resources to create our own dividers from scratch.

 

Thank you for any advice or info,

 

batja

 

Batja Bell

Associate Registrar

The Newark Museum

973-596-6548