Plate 145:  Adding a souvenir mug to the collection, Part 31: the reinforcing strap is affixed under the floor of the handle's recess
(This plate added JUN 2005)

ERE we see the underside of the insert for the presentation box. A reinforcing strap, fashioned from boxboard (see the right-hand picture in Plate 144), has been glued to the floor of the handle's recess.
The glue was applied to all three bonding surfaces of the reinforcing strap, namely, the two short tabs that are affixed to the main insert, and the long central tab that is affixed to the floor of the handle's recess. The glue that is used throughout this project is Elmer's Glue-all, which possesses the two important qualities of strength and neatness. The glue is a milky-white color when applied to the bonding surfaces from the applicator, but it slowly dries into a thin, hard, colorless transparent coating. --more--
The Artisan (that is, the gentleman who is constructing the presentation box) wishes to assure the reader that many good paper-glues exist, and that the Artisan's preference for Elmer's Glue-All does not constitute a strict endorsement for that product. "After all," said the Artisan, "suppose someone reads this treatise sometime in the distant future, perhaps, due to the ubiquity of the World-Wide Web, a future person living upon a distant planet. Elmer's Glue-All might simply not be available to that person at that time and place." The Artisan added, after a pause: "I certainly don't want to insist that someone constructing a presentation box on the planet Mars during, let us say, the Twenty-Fifth Century AD should need to scramble about looking for Elmer's Glue-All." "Perhaps," he continued, "such a person might use a locally procurable adhesive product, for example, a fish-paste made from the indigenous denizens of the canals of Mars." Go to top of page