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Thank you so much! I'll look these up right away.
And thank you to all who answered my post. What a great resource this group is!
Linda
Linda Hylkema
> On Oct 3, 2015, at 11:40 AM, George Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Linda Hylkema’s question on when “the use of gold banding begins being used
> on refined earthen wares” has been answered by Silas Hurry’s reference to
> “Bright Gold” gilding in my article “Telling Time for Archaeologists” in
> Volume 29 of *Northeast Historical Archaeology*, page 1-22. There is an
> expanded discussion of bright gold gilding in my article “A Revised Set of
> CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English Ceramics
> from 1787 to 1880” *Historical Archaeology *1991 Vol. 25, No. 1:10.
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> Robert Copeland’s book *Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the
> Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries* published in 2009 by the Northern
> Ceramic Society has very useful descriptions and illustrations of the
> various manufacturing processes in the Staffordshire potteries. Chapter
> 23, titled “Gold, Gilding and Lustres” has an excellent description of the
> older gilding processes that involved gold and mercury that was used up
> until the 1960s. This gilding had to be burnished with a “blood stone” or
> agate. Gilders were a group of workers and this was restricted to the
> high-end ceramics. Robert also includes a history of the development of
> bright gold gilding that reduced the cost of gilding and led to its
> expanded use on cheap earthenware. Gilding became common from the 1870s
> and are still used extensively today on cheap ceramics.
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> Peace,
>
> George L. Miller
>
>> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:27 AM, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> They called it "Guzzaline" in the new film.
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Perhaps what George Miller refers to as "liquid gold"? (1870 - present)
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