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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 38 — GOLD VARNISH.

William Johnston translation

One may see in Homer’s Odyssey, book iii. v. 432, the process employed for gilding in this manner, the horns of the cow brought by Nestor as an offering to Minerva.

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