Re: The Vinland Map's Ink

On 25 Apr 2005 17:59:05 -0700, "Ken Towe" <ken.towe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Dry tissue on the front?
>
>Enterline wrote this:
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>"...a piece of dry tissue paper is laid on the FACE of the document.
>Then one brushes liquid bleach onto this paper and lets it soak
>through, peeling away the tissue before drying occurs."
>
>Again, here is what Plenderleith wrote (with emphasis added)...
>
>"In such cases the prints are laid FACE DOWN on glass, and a pad of WET
>
>blotting paper applied to the BACK for a few minutes and then removed;
>after this the minimum of bleaching solution is applied to the moist
>BACK of the print by a camel-hair brush. It permeates the paper, having
>
>a mild bleaching action on the FRONT."
>
>You tell us how Enterline confused all that. Does not support his
>theory at all!
>
It certainly does not directly explain what inspired it.



Eric Stevens

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