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2 Boom To give gold a high & fine colour Red [catimed?] vitrol 3 oz, salarmoniac 2 oz, & verdegrease 1 oz: grind them together, & keep them dry. When you would colour your gold, moisten it, & strew this powder over it, weat it often, & quench it in pump. water.
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verdegrease, sal-armoniac, saltpetre & vitrol, an equal quantity, grind them well together; pour vinegar upon them, grind them again, as painters do colours, & let them dry; then moisten, grind & dry them again; repeat this for several times: & when you would colour gold, wet it with urine, rub it with a brush then fling the powder upon it, lay it on red hot coles, & it will turn black.
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then quench it in urine, & rub it with a wire brush; in this manner you may proceed with the other colours.
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To bring pale gold to a high colour
Take verdegrease, pour vinegar upon it, stir it will, anoint your gold therewith, heat it in the fire, & quench it in urine. --
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To colour gold
Take a lock of human hair; of about a finger thick, lay it on live coles, & hold the gold with a pair of tongs over it, to recieve the fumes.
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To give gilded work a fine colour
Take clean salt & brimstone, boil them together with water in an eggshell; after taking away the inside film; with this liquid wipe over your gilding, & it will make it of a bright colour.
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[recto:] Or Take powder of sulpher & bruised garlick, boil these in urine, [?] your gold, quench it therein.
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To brighten spots in gilding
Boil allum in clear water, put your work into it. this will restore the colour again, & remove the spots.
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To give onto silver lace & trimmings their beauty & colour, as if they were hnew.
Take powder of alabaster, put it dry into a pipkin, & let it boil as long as it can, then take it off the fire, & when cold, lay your lace upon a cloth, & with a comb-brush, take up some of that powder, & rub therewith both sides, till it is as bright as you would have it, afterwards polish it with a smooth stone.
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Or take ox-gall, & ye gall of a large jack, & some water, mix it together, & with it rub your gold or silver. --- Of Helling gold This is ye finishing stroke of either gold or gilded work after it has undergone ye operations with ye gilding wax & gold colours. To hell gold, or gilded work 2 oz tarter, 2 oz sulpher, & 4 oz salt boil this in half water, & half wine, dip your gold or gilded work into it, - --- or, 8 oz salt, 2 oz tartar 2 oz sulphur 2 oz cap. mort. 1/2 oz allum, boil this in water & wine, & draw your work through. --- or 8 oz sulphur, 8 oz allum, 8 oz yellow arsenick, 16 oz tarter, 16 oz salt boil them in water & wine. ---- Borax Take ye best venice soap, scrape it as thin as possible, let it dry between 2 papers in ye air; then rub it to a powder, put it into an unglased pipkin set it on a gentle coal fire, & let it by degrees fugemate until it has no moisture at all, then it is right, this is better than venice borax. -- A powder to silver copper or brass, by rubbing it with ones finger. Dissolve a little silver in aqua fortis, add to it as much tarter & sal-armo-niac as to make it like a paste, whereof make little balls; dry & pulverise them; if you take some of this powder, on your wetted thumb & rub it upon ye mettle, it will give it ye colour of silver. --
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To silver brass in fire. Take calix of fine silver 1.2 oz, 1 oz sal-armoniac, 3 oz salt; mix, & grind them well together. When you use it, grind & temper it together with water, & rub your brass therewith; neal it brown; then quench it in water wherein tarter has been dissolved; scratch it, & finish your work by polish -ing it as you see requisite --- To Silver copper, brass, steel, or Iron, as not to come off, except made red hot._ Take urine, which is made in ye morning, cover it & let it stand a whole month, & it will ferment; put it into a kettle or earthen pot, & let it boil; skim it, & when ye 3d part is evaporated, take 2 parts of urine, 1 oz tarter, & 1 oz of [galiz?]-stone; put it in, & let it boil once up, This liquid keep clean, & if you would silver aney metal, take brick-dust on a wet woolen rag, & rub therewith your iron, or other metal, until it is clear & fine, & put it 24 hours in ye prepaired wine; afterwards dry it, & where you design to silver, rub it over with quicksilver; you must lay it on thin with an Iron spatulae that has also lain 2 hours in wine; then rub it on with a soft woolen rag; it is a bright silvering. --- Silvering on copper Dissolve fine silver in aqua fortis pour it upon pulverised tarter; & then draw your aqua fortis clear off & there remains a black matter,
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with this rub your copper; then need it well, & boil it in tarter & salt.
To silver copper or brass with boiling it. Take 9 oz salt, 26 leaves of silver 1/4 of an oz tarter, & 1/2 oz allum; boil this in an earthen [pipmin?], & stir it well together; pour what you design to silver into it, pour water upon it - & let - is boil; after it is well boiled scratch brush is; put it in again & boil it; then scratch it again, & repeat this so often untill it is to your mind.
To other all sort of metals. Take aqua - quartz, put it in a [glap?], & set it on hot ashes; then put in yer silver, which first has been beaten very thin, & cut into little shreds. When yer silver is repos-oed take it off ye ashes, & m[page torn] that [higmid?] with as much white tarter as will make it time a paste; if you rub brass, copper, or aney other metal, over with this, it will make it like silver itself
To boil brass like silver. Take one part of yer filings of good pewter, add 1 part of white tarter, & mix it together; thin take an unglazed [pipmin?] & put these two ingredients, & of brass (which before must be well scratched & cleaned) into it, & let it boil
the approved method to take of ye gilding from silver. 1st take a [glap?] or glazed utensil, with aqua quartz, ye quantity where-of must be according to ye big nep of your worth; take no more than