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Title
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An Important Improvement in Shoes and Boots from the London Chronicle
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Creator
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London Chronicle
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Date
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1694/1795
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Description
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A method for waterproofing leather shoes using wax, oil, turpentine, and burgundy pitch, used to soften and weatherproof.
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Transcript
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Take one pint of drying oil two ounces of Yellow wax two ounces of Spirits of Turpentine & one ounce of Burgundy pitch melted carefully over a slow fire: with this composition rub shoes & boots are to be rubbed in the sun, or at a distance from the fire with a sponge as often as they become dry. untill they are fully saturated the leather then is impervious to wet. the shoes & boots last much longer acquire softness and pliability, and thus prepared, are the most effectual preservatives against cold and chiblains.
The above method of preparing water proof leather at a very small expence will be found invariably to succeed
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Contributor
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Caylor, Karmen
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Grimm, Stephanie
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Bakir, Mehtap
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Source
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Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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Publisher
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George Mason University Libraries
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Rights
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Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
