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Oil Gilding
The surface is pre- ether must not be shaken with the muriate of pared or primed with a coat of white lead gold, as is advised by some, for it will then in drying oil; then follow 2, 3, or 4 coats of be sure to contain acid; but if the two calcined white lead ground in linseed oil and liquids be brought continually into contact by turpentine, with an interval of at least 24 the motion described, the affinity between hours between each coat, which must be ether and gold is so strong as to overcome the carefully smoothed off with pumice-stone or obstacle of gravity, and it will hold the gold shave grass. The gold size (see No. 3580) is in solution. The ethereal solution may also next applied. When the gold size coat is be concentrated by gentle evaporation.