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White Toy Varnish
Tender copal, 74 ounces; camphor, 1 ounce; alcohol of 95 per cent., 1 quart; dissolve, then add mastich, 2 ounces; Venice turpentine, 1
How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.
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Tender copal, 74 ounces; camphor, 1 ounce; alcohol of 95 per cent., 1 quart; dissolve, then add mastich, 2 ounces; Venice turpentine, 1