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Best Pale Carriage Varnish

Pale African copal, 8 pounds; fuse, and add clarified linseed oil, 24 gallons; boil till very very fine with a little boiled oil. The varnish made in this way lacks, however, that richness, brilliancy, and depth of blackness imparted by asphaltum.

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