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Durrell Stables Survayer of the Meltings Gold Pot Book, April 25, 1814
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6 [left margin] 168 To make Blacking Balls for Shoes & Boots Mutton suet, 4 ounces, bees wax 1 oz. Sugar Candy & gum arabic one drachm of each in fine powder; melt these well together over a gently fire, & add thereto about a spoonful of turpentine and ivory and lamp-black sufficient to give it a good black; while hot enough to run, you may make it into a ball by pouring it into a tin mould, or let it stand till almost Cold you may mould it any form you please with the Hand - [left margin] 167 Chinese method of mending China Take a piece of flint Glass, beat it to a fine powder, and grind it well with the white of an egg. and it joins China without riveting, so that no act can break it in the same place Care must be taken, that the Composition is to be ground extremely fine on a painter's Stone [left margin] 167 To take Spots effectually out of Silk, Linen or Woolen Spirits of Turpentine, twelve drops & the same quantity of Spirits of Wine, grind these with an ounce of Pipe makers Clay, and rub the spots therewith. The Composition must be wetted before being applied to either the Silk, Linen or Woolen; let it remain thereon till dry, then rub it off and the Spots will disappear - True Spirits of Salts diluted with Water will remove from [moles?] from Linen and sal-ammoniac with [Luner?] will take out the stains of Wine -
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6 [left margin] 168 To make Blacking Balls for Shoes & Boots Mutton suet, 4 ounces, bees wax 1 oz. Sugar Candy & gum arabic one drachm of each in fine powder; melt these well together over a gently fire, & add thereto about a spoonful of turpentine and ivory and lamp-black sufficient to give it a good black; while hot enough to run, you may make it into a ball by pouring it into a tin mould, or let it stand till almost Cold you may mould it any form you please with the Hand - [left margin] 167 Chinese method of mending China Take a piece of flint Glass, beat it to a fine powder, and grind it well with the white of an egg. and it joins China without riveting, so that no act can break it in the same place Care must be taken, that the Composition is to be ground extremely fine on a painter's Stone [left margin] 167 To take Spots effectually out of Silk, Linen or Woolen Spirits of Turpentine, twelve drops & the same quantity of Spirits of Wine, grind these with an ounce of Pipe makers Clay, and rub the spots therewith. The Composition must be wetted before being applied to either the Silk, Linen or Woolen; let it remain thereon till dry, then rub it off and the Spots will disappear - True Spirits of Salts diluted with Water will remove from [moles?] from Linen and sal-ammoniac with [Luner?] will take out the stains of Wine -
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