A 19th century Japanese tatooed human skin in the Walter Reed Medical Museum had been mounted on a wood and plaster mannequin. The untreated skin had joins covered with plaster. Poor storage had caused splitting at seams and splitting/buckling elsewhere. Strain might be reduced by creating a new support mannequin. An 18th-century japanned leather sedan chair had extensive chemical, fungal and mechanical damage. The brass mounts had bronze disease. Methylene chloride or toluene was used for cleaning, weights used to flatten buckling, skived cowhide and PVA emulsion for infilling, nylon netting and PVA for reinforcing, pigmented microcrystalline was for retouching. A suggestion was made to mount the brass studs on stainless steel pins, thus avoiding contact between metal and skin.