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Fine Red Sealing-Wax

Melt cautiously 4 ounces very pale shellac in a bright copper pan over a clear charcoal fire, at the lowest degree of heat that will be necessary to melt it; when melted, stir in 14 ounces and the water evaporated down to a mass of Venice turpentine (previously warmed), folthick consistence, to which a quantity of gly-lowed by 3 ounces vermilion. The heat must cerine, equal in weight with the glue, is added, be neither too much nor too little, but just after which the heating is continued until all sufficient to allow a most thorough mixing of the water has been driven off, when the mass the different ingredients. When this is acis poured out into moulds, or on a marble slab. complished, the fluid mass is discharged into This mixture answers for stamps, printers' metallic moulds and left to cool. For the rolls, galvano-plastic copies, etc. purpose of melting the shellac more easily,