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- From: leeu@nobeltech.se (Leif Euren)
- Subject: Re: Sealing wax
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.095641.5836@nobeltech.se>
- Organization: NobelTech AB
- References: <1992Nov19.215648.6654@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:56:41 GMT
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- Thomas Ignatius Perigrinus writes about the manufacture of sealing wax,
- and gives this recipy
-
- shellac 4
- turpentine 2
- rosin 1
- vermillion 2
- bees wax 2
-
- and also gives advice on how to get other colours than red, calling for
- Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow and White Magnesia.
-
- Myself, I've found these 3 recipies:
-
- shellac 100 60 40
- hartz - 40 60
- gum turpentine 10 70 60
- turpentine oil 5 5 5
- cinnabar 65 45 40
- chalk 15 15 20
- plaster 15 15 10
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- and also
-
- bees wax 50
- gum turpentine 15
- cinnabar 10
- glycerin 5
-
- My dictionary says that vermillion and cinnabar is the same thing
- (mercuric sulphide, HgS), and from your description of 'rosin', I gather
- it's the same as what I call 'hartz': a kind of resin.
-
- But what it meant by 'turpentine' in the recipy you give, m'lord Thomas?
- Is it the resinous "gum", or the distilled product, the oil?
-
- And do anybody know wether the pigments Prussian Blue, Chrome Yellow and
- White Magnesia were used in our period? I have several recipies using
- them, as well as Lamp Black (for a black wax) and Red Lead (for orange),
- so it would be nice to know.
-
- your humble servant
- Peder Klingrode
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- Herr Peder Klingrode | Leif Euren Stockholm, Sweden
- Holmgard, Nordmark, Drachenwald, East | leeu@nobeltech.se
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