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Common Black Sealing-Wax

Mix together (see No. 2313) 6 pounds resin, 2 pounds each shellac and Venice turpentine, and sufficient lampblack to color.

Mucilage of Tragacanth. 2318. Gold Colored Sealing-Wax. Triturate 1 drachm powdered gum tragacanth in a mortar with 6 drachms glycerine; add by degrees, with constant trituration, 10 fluid This is made by stirring gold colored mica spangles into the melted resins just before they begin to cool. Or: By taking finely pulverounces water. This will produce a mucilage ized gold-leaf (see No. 25) or metal powder, at once, without the objectionable air-bubbles and stirring them into the sealing-wax inincidental to agitation. stead of the colors. A common kind is made silver leaves. 2319. Marbled Sealing-Wax is made by mixing different kinds of sealing-wax together just as they begin to solidify.