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Pennsylvania’s 325 year-old Charter received an examination and check-up on May 23, 2006, from Joan Irving of the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts. The Charter is the 1681 grant from King Charles II of England to William Penn for the land that became Pennsylvania. It is permanently stored in a high security vault in the Pennsylvania State Archives and only publicly displayed once a year around March 4, its (and therefore Pennsylvania’s) birthday. A checkup once every five years is recommended by conservators to ensure that the iron gall inks are not flaking and that all four pages of the seventeenth-century parchment are not warping.
Published online, biannually by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PA State Archives State Archivist: David A. Haury Editor: Linda A. Ries
Questions? Comments? E-maillries@pa.gov or call 717.787.3023
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