Preserving Antique Flies

[ACRon]

My son has collected flies that were tied by his Great Grand Father, Grand Father, Father and himself.  Some of the oldest flies seem fragile (hair is dry).  Is there a spray or something he can use to help preserve these family heirlooms.  He is going to be putting them in a display box under UV glass.

 

Thanks,

Ron

[Anglinarcher]

You might want to contact a museum and see how they preserve insects, old fur, etc.  I have done some of this in my college days, using a vacuum chamber and infusing a super glue mist....... but that was almost 30 years ago.  Still, perhaps knowing that museums do something like that might suggest a direction to research.

[bassrecord]

You might contact any of the classic Atlantic salmon fly tiers. The mostly mount just one fly at a time but since the materials they use are expensive and from extinct, exotic and prohibited birds and animals they probably have good ideas about preserving their mounts.

John