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font-family:Tahoma'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>We have a piece of damaged polar bear fur within my museum’s
collection. The fur is damaged beyond repair and our Collections Committee has voted
to deaccession and then safely dispose of the piece through our taxidermy
hazmat disposal company. Before we do this, I’d like to make sure there
aren’t any restrictions on disposing of this type of material. Unfortunately,
I haven’t been able to locate any paperwork on when the piece of fur came
into the collection. We moved into our current building in 1970 and a lot of
the documentation on the collection did not make the move. Most of the
collection dates between 1870s and 1920s, but there are newer specimens as
well. Any insight you can offer is much appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-style:italic'>Collections Specialist</span></font></i><b><font
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color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt'>, <st1:City w:st="on">Worcester</st1:City>, <st1:State
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