BRASS
HOW TO RE-LACQUER IT. First, thoroughly clean the article with soap-powder, using nail-brush and boiling water; allow it to dry. In the meantime, make up this solution: Put loz each seedlac, annato, gamboge and dragon's blood, also Joz saffron into a bottle that will hold 11 pints fluid, pour 1 pint spirits of wine on ingredients (obtainable from any paint store). Put cork in bottle and stand in vessel of boiling water, shaking at intervals until contents are all dissolved. Strain quickly through muslin into another bottle. Keep tightly corked till required. Place the brass article in the oven until it is as hot as can be borne to remove it. Apply solution immediately while the article is hot with cam-el-hair mop-brush. Allow to harden in a room where atmosphere is warm and not below GO degrees F. Treated in this simple way your brass will be like new.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1939, Page 8
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150BRASS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1939, Page 8
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