The first object of my conservation career, which I worked on in my first year at Cardiff, was an intriguing “whistle” from The Egypt Centre in Swansea. A beautiful object, consisting of a combination of copper, ivory, lapis lazuli, and adhesives from an unknown number of previous repairs. It was also broken into three pieces. It was such a fragile object, with all its different component materials, that every stage of the process needed to be thoroughly considered.