UPDATE TO CELLAR CONDITION

I've been told by someone who has had experience in this sort of thing that I should not expect too much as far as the moulding stored in the cellar. While it may seem that it LOOKS okay, water damage is insidious. Leafed moulding is first coated with gesso or plaster, and exposure to water can cause the gesso to expand. It may take time, like MONTHS, but the damage WILL happen. So trashing all of our current stock is a good idea, in other words.

I hate to do it, as I'm a "waste not; want not" sort of person, but it may be best in the end.

Time will tell.

Wendy