Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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To Coat Busts and Figures

Busts and figures, and other complicated the surface takes a bronze tinge by the reworks of art, which cannot be perfectly coated duction of the gold. It is next washed in with black-lead, may be covered by a film of distilled water by merely dipping, not by throwing water upon it. The wire connection is now attached to the zinc of the battery, and then the article put into the copper solution, and in a few minutes the article is coated over with a deposit of copper. A thin copper surface may thus be given to small busts or figures without sensibly distorting the features.

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