Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

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Transfer Varnish

For trans- hands, doubled up, melted, and drawn out till ferring and fixing engravings or lithographs it assumes a fine silky lustre, then drawn out on wood, and for gilding, silvering, etc. Dis- to the desired thickness in sticks, like candy, solve 4 ounces mastich (in tears), and 4 oun- and it is then ready for solution. To make ces sandarach, in 1½ pints rectified spirit; add the BOOKBINDERS' VARNISH, dissolve 1 part pint pure Canada balsam. (See No. 2919.) of the precipitate in 2½ parts 95 per cent. al-

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