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French Polishing and Enamelling: A Practical Work of Instruction is credited to Richard Bitmead. The title page says the work includes numerous recipes for making polishes, varnishes, glaze-lacquers and revivers. The author's preface says that early in the present century the method generally adopted for polishing furniture was by rubbing with beeswax and turpentine or with linseed-oil.
A section on matching says old mahogany furniture which has been repaired may be easily matched by wiping over the new portions with water in which a nodule of lime has been dissolved, or by common soda and water. The text says the process of rubbing down should be done evenly and carefully, so as not to rub through the shellac at any point. The text says the material for the rubbing down is pumice-stone moistened with raw linseed-oil for the best work.
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- Richard Bitmead
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- 90
- Language
- English
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