: Mark

: The crazy thing is i suspect the paint evapourates when it
: degrades, now that's a neat trick!

: The lume is very unstable in this one, looks like the aftermath of
: an earthquake, so i expect it will fail, although the flight
: over the pond did not make it worse, so there is hope. It looks
: to me that if you were to back fill the lume to stabilise it
: would crumble, so if at some point it fails, it will need a
: relume to a very close match (which i'm sure is possible),
: because even tracking down another original lume set of hands,
: would likely yield a slightly different shade of blue/green.

: Rich

Rich,

Who knows how the lume would react to binder being applied to the rear of the hands in order to stabilise it??, it could work or the lume could crumble like you suggest. Personally i think it would hold, if its held up during transit i'd bet it would be fine ;) I've done it before on other hands that had similair unstable lume.

It would have to be something you give some thought too i suppose, in good news though i have a lume that from my untrained eye is a perfect match ;)

Best,

James.