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



from the 'Household Cylopedia', 1881
 - VARNISHES -



Content:

Solvents for India-Rubber and Gutta Percha.
Solvent for Old Paint or Putty.

To give a Drying Quality to Poppy Oil.
To give a Drying Quality to Fat Oils.
Preparation of a Drying Oil for Zinc Paint.
On the Manufacture of Drying Linseed Oil
  without Heat.

Resinous Drying Oil.

Fat Copal Varnish.
Varnish for Watch Cases in Imitation
  of Tortoiseshell.

Gold-colored Copal Varnish.
Camphorated Copal Varnish.
Ethereal Copal Varnish.
Fat Amber or Copal Varnish.
To Apply Copal Varnish to the Reparation
  of Opake Enamels.


To make White Copal Varnish.
To make Black Copal Varnish.
To make Yellow Copal Varnish.
To make Blue Copal Varnish.
To make Green Copal Varnish.
To make Red Copal Varnish.
To make Purple Copal Varnish.

Brick Red.
Chamois Color.
Violet.
Pearl Gray.
Flaxen Gray.
Brunswick Black Varnish.
India-Rubber Varnish.
To make Varnish for Silks, etc.

Compound Mastic Varnish.
Camphorated Mastic Varnish for Paintings.
Shaw's Mastic Varnish for Paintings.
To make Painter's Cream.

Sandarac Varnish.
Compound Sandarac Varnish.
Camphorated Sandarac Varnish
  for Cut-Paper Works, Dressing-Boxes, etc.

Spirituous Sandarac Varnish
  for Wainscoting small Articles of Furniture,

  Balustrades, Inside Railings.


Colored Varnish for Violins
  and other Stringed Instruments,
also for
  Plum-tree, Mahogany and Rose-wood.

French Polish.
Fat Varnish of a Gold-color.
Fat Turpentine, or Golden Varnish,
  being a Mordant to Gold and Dark Colors.

To make Turners' Varnish for Boxwood.
Loning's Colorless Varnish.
Dr. Hare's Colorless Varnish.
To Varnish Dressing-Boxes.
Gallipot Varnish.
Varnish for Electrical Purposes.
Mastic Gallipot Varnish, for Grinding Colors.
Lacquer for Brass.
Lacquer for Philosophical Instruments.
Gold-colored Lacquer for Brass Watch-cases,
  Watchkeys. etc.

Lacquer of a Less Drying Quality.
To make Lacquers of Various Tints.
Mordant Varnish for Gilding.
Other Mordants.
To Prepare a Composition for making
  Colored Drawings
and Prints
  Resemble Paintings in Oil.

A Varnish to Color Baskets.
To Prepare Anti-attrition.
Liard.
Varnish for Pales and Coarse Wood-work.
A Black Varnish for Old Straw or Chip Hats.
Flexible Paint.
Porous Water-proof Cloth.
To Thicken Linen Cloth for Screens and Bed-testers.
Common Wax, or Varnished Cloth.
To make Liquid Paste with Drying-oil.
To prepare Varnished Silk.
To Prepare Water-proof Boots.
India-rubber Varnish.
On Chloroformic Solution of Gutta-percha.
To make Black Japan.
To Preserve Tiles.
To Bronze Plaster Figures.

To Polish Varnished Furniture.
To Polish Wood.
To Polish Brass Ornaments inlaid in Wood.

To Brown Iron and Steel Objects.
To make Blacking.
To make Liquid Blacking.
To make Bailey's Composition for Blacking-cakes.
To make Blacking Balls for Shoes.
To make Liquid Japan Blacking.
India Rubber Blacking (Patent.)

To render Leather Water-proof.
To make Varnish for Colored Drawings.
To make Furniture Paste.
To make Furniture Oil.
To make Wash for Preserving Drawings
   made with a Black Lead Pencil.

To make Varnish for Wood, which Resists
   the Action of Boiling Water.

To Restore the Blackness of old Leather Chairs, etc.
Transparent Ivory.
Bleaching of Ivory.

To Varnish Drawings and Card Work.
To make Turpentine Varnish.
On a Black Varnish for Zinc.
Protection of Iron and Steel.
Varnish used for Indian Shields.
To Varnish Silver Leaf like Gold.

To Recover Varnish.
To Polish Varnish.

Process for giving various Objects a Pearly Lustre.

To Prevent the Formation of Fungi in Timber.
Prevention of Rotting of Wood.

Manufacture of Paper-Mache.

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