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Grand-Grandfather's      
Useful Antique Recipes      
- all sorts of inks -        

from the 'Household Cylopedia'
1881
 - INKS -

Content:

   1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS:

  2. WRITING FLUIDS:
        • To make common Black Ink.
        • Stark's Ink (Writing Fluid).
        • Chrome Ink (Runge's Ink).
        • Non-corrosive Writing Fluid.
        • Alizarine Ink, Leonhardi.
        • Indestructible Ink for Resisting the Action
          of Corrosive Substances.
        • Ink Powder.

  3. MARKING INKS:
        • A Purple-red Ink for Marking Linen.
        • Blue and Indelible Black Ink.
        • Carmine Ink.

  4. DEALING WITH INKS:
        • To take out Spots of Ink.
        • To take out Marking Ink.
        • To make New Writing look Old.
        • To Write on Greasy Paper or Parchment.

  5. CHEMICAL DEALING
      WITH WRITINGS:
        • To Restore Decayed Writings.
        • To take Impressions
           from Recent Manuscripts.
        • To Produce a Fac-simile of any Writing.
        • Substitute for Copying Machines.
        • To Copy Writings.

  6. COPPER-PLATE PRINTERS' INK

  7. PRINTERS' INK:
        • A Fine Black Printing ink.
        • Best Printing-Ink.
        • Good Common Printing Ink.
        • Colors of Printers' Ink.

  8. INDIAN INK
       • A Substitute for Indian-ink.

   9. SYMPATHETIC INKS:
        • Chloride of Gold and Tin.
        • Starch and Iodide.
        • Chloride of Cobalt.
        • Other Sympathetic Inks.

10. COLORED INKS

11. OTHER INKS AND PROCEDURES:
        • Perpetual Ink for Inscriptions
          on Tombstones, Marbles, etc.
        • Ink for Writing on Zinc Labels.
        • Chemical Landscapes.

1. PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

Ordinary black writing-ink contains a mixture of the tannates and gallates of the  proto and sesquioxide of iron. These are insoluble in water and are suspended by  means of gum. Creosote or essential oils are added to prevent moulding.

Many receipts are given for inks; those found below are reliable. As a general rule, the use of vinegar, logwood, and salts of copper is not to be recommended. Inks so prepared are richer at first, but will fade and act on pens.

Most ink is pale when first written with, but becomes dark; this is owing to oxidation. Such ink lasts better than that which is very black.

When ink fades, it is from a decomposition of the organic matter; it may be restored by brushing over with infusion of galls or solution of ferrocynnide of potassium. The durability of any ink is impaired by the use of steel pens.

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