Verdigris
Dear Aunt Daisy, Here is an experience of mine which may help somebody. I was washing a white linen tablecloth. We have the Gas hot water over the copper, and it drops a white powder which, when wet, goes green like verdigris (I suppose that is what it really is). Anyway, I was lifting the tablecloth out of, the copper into the tubs, and didn’t notice that it got some green on it. I looked up your Handy Hint Book, but the only thing I could find ‘was how to clean verdigris off a copper with cream of tartar. I thought I would try this, as jhe cloth was ruined as it was; so I put it into a basin of water, and put almost ‘a tablespoon of cream of tartar on the spot, and left it for 24 hours as for cleaning the copper. It didn’t take all that time at all and the mark came out completely. It doesn’t seem to have done any damage to the material either. I left the cream of tartar in a thick paste on the spot, not letting it mix in with the water too much.
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Northland.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 450, 6 February 1948, Page 23
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