Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

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Common Pale Brass

Melt together 25 parts copper, 20 parts zinc, 3 parts lead, and 2 parts tin.

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