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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

A second tin (and contents) that I don't have in my collection:

Can of paint: “Bergers Pure Paris Green” containing arsenic, England 19th c. Arsenic poisoning killed many renovators (and professionals) in Victorian England. In fact William Morris owned the mine that provided the arsenic for paint tints that killed many thousands back then.
This product is Canadian made so it swept the world, the 'green trade' . . .
ah, I hear you ask, what is the first tin?
. . . go on - use the search facility on this blog!

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