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Pale Brass Lacquer

Take 2 Tints. Put 4 ounces best gum gamboge gallons spirits of wine, 3 ounces cape aloes into 32 ounces spirits of turpentine; 4 ounces cut small, 1 pound fine pale shellac, 1 ounce dragon's blood into the same quantity of gamboge cut small. Digest for a week, spirits of turpentine as the gamboge, and 1 shake frequently, decant and filter. ounce annotto into 8 ounces of the same

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