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We've just received a nice package in the mail- yesterday. A donor who wants to remain anonymous has provided a quantity of silvery leaf to us, for LetterheadsOz use.
There are 18 good books of looseleaf silver leaf- I can recognise that OK- they're 92 mm x 92 mm- and a few here and there have minor tarnish on an edge, for a mm or so. There's one further book that copped some humidity. The books they're in are orangey tissue, with a bigger white 'carrier' tissue beside each leaf, and red cotton 'binding' holding the book together.
THEN there are 22 books of silvery looking leaf- also very delicate- sized at 135 mm x 135 mm per sheet (that's about 5.5") The white tissue books are cut flush with the size of the leaf. They're bound with red cotton thread.
THEN there's about an inch to an inch and a quarter or more of thickness of bigger stuff- the sheets are about 16 x 17 cm each ( 6" x 6.5"), and have several sheets on top of each other, like 8 or 10, and an oversize pink tissue wrapping folded around that bundle, and the same again, etc etc.
None are branded with any maker's mark, nor any kind of label. The total quantity of leaf & tissue weighs about 1 kg.
What's a simple test to tell what the two bigger sizes really are, eg Dutch metal, or whatever, and its best use?
Do those descriptions make sense to anyone? The stuff that I listed first is similar to the (real) silver leaf I bought back in about 2002.
It'll all go nicely on the back of some glue-chipped glass at LetterheadsOz in October, but I'd like a bit of a story to go with the two different types of leaves, first!
Thanks!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Thanks Ron- I have a gallon of hydrochloric acid in the shed, but no nitric, and the chickens lay good eggs which we eat before they become hydrogen sulphide bombs! I'll try a lemon!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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