Quote: Originally posted by chloric1 ![](images/xpblue/lastpost.gif) | Certain metal salt solutions are causitc and discolor metal surfaces. I know Antimony chloride is for "bronzing iron but the presense of antimony on
the workpiece is probably objectional. | See The Colouring, Bronzing, and Patination of Metals: A Manual
for the Fine Metalworker and Sculptor, by Richard Hughes, for a whole recipe book of this sort of thing. It's a luscious book, full of color
plates and all the recipes they used to make them. I used to have a copy, but I lent it to a friend who destroyed it out of carelessness.
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