[Jewelry making - Article 00992] - Re: [Orchid] Use of Gold Leaf

[Donna Wilson]

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    I recently found most of a package of "XX Deep 23k Gold Leaf"
    manufactured by "Hastings & Co, Philadelphia" I would like to know
    what the was intended 'use' was, they seem to thin for any jewelry
    application. (The package has been between the pages of an early
    edition of Webster's Gems for at least 25 years.) 

    I have several books of this, inherited from my grandfather who was
    a bookbinder. They used this leaf for rolling decorative patterns
    into the edges of leather volumes and for stamping names and titles.
    In his beautifully crafted kit there are several roulettes for doing
    this, all art deco style. So there is at least one use for the gold
    leaf and I think it was also used for gold leaf on picture frames
    and furniture. I have folded sheets together and fused it onto fine
    silver, keum-boo style and also fired it under transparent enamels.
    You have to be very careful in placing it, it sticks to everything. 

Donna in VA
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