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[Mrs Mitchell]

Oldminer, So funny you mention lampblack. We were clearing out an old outbuilding a while back and we found a tin of it, next to an Edwardian railway lamp. We blacked the lamp with it, and it came up really pretty, but I was beginning to think my shared prong eternity band would never be the same again. (I own gloves, but I was too excited abou the find to go and get them). Intereting phenomenon - lampblack will last for the best part of a hundred years, even if the tin it''s in corrodes to almost nothing. It was wrapped in waxed cloth inside the tin.

Yes, I''m looking for even the faintest excuse to avoid writing a paper. Does it show?