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Show Renovating Leather Gcods. The Stationer and Printer says: j "A liquid used for renovating shabby black morocco, black leather leat-her bags, dressing cases, etc, is J prepared as follows: Three quarts of water, 7J ounces log- wood, 1 ounce of suggar, 6 ounces genuine gum arabic, solution of ' sulphate of iron, methylated spirits 1 of wine. Put the water and log- wood chips into a copper boiler or j saucepan, and let the water boil until reduced one-half in bulk. Then stir in the sugar and gum, and when they are dissolved stir in sufficient of the sulphate of the sulphate of iron solution to cause the reddish brown color of the solution to assume a plum or bluish tint. Then add the spirit, and after a few days' digestion strain off for use. Apply one or more coats of this solution to the leather with a sponge. If the grain of the leather is very much abraded or rubbed of, a final coat of a spirit gloss or lacquer will restore the new appearance of the bag or whatever the artible may be." |