The Making of the Glencairn Methuselah Window: Page 05

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PRIMITIVE GLASS PAINT
copied from record of August 4 1927 Dec 13, 1927

Take 16 grains Warm Black Tracing Color

Smash up hard flesh colored glass until it is smashed fairly fine but not real fine and add

8 grains to the 16 of WARM BLACK mix with oxidized turpentine already described – apply quite a good deal of body with an ordinary brush

Flesh colored glass No 42 comes near to matching the old head

FIRES WITH A DULL FUSED LOOK AT 1140°F

The surface color is slightly redder than the old color

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