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Best French Polish

Shellac, parts; gum mastich, 1 part; gum sandarach, 1 part; spirits of wine, 40 parts; the mastich and sandarach must first be dissolved in the spirits of wine, and then the shellac; the process may be performed by putting them into a bottle loosely corked, and placing it in a vessel of water heated to a little below 173° French rench Polishing. The Fahr., or the boiling point of spirits of wine, method of varnishing furniture by means until the solution be effected; the clear soluof rubbing it on the surface of the wood, is of tion may be poured off into another bottle for comparatively modern date. To put on a use. Various receipts for the French polish hard face, which shall not be so liable to have been published, in which ingredients are scratch as varnish, and yet appear equally fine, the French polish was introduced. Below we give a full direction of the process, and also the various preparations of the different compositions necessary. inserted that are insoluble in spirits of wine, and therefore useless; and others contain ingredients that are soluble in water, so as to render the mixture more casily injured.