oil varnish
Britishnoun
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SACQUIN, ——, Paris, 1830-60, made several excellent instruments; oil varnish of good quality, neat work, "Strad" pattern, name branded on back, inside.
From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George
Rembrandt, from motives of economy, may have employed the scarcely less durable common "vernix" or sandarac oil varnish; and for certain effects may have reckoned on its tint.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
It may be described as precisely the reverse of the oil varnish; it is hard and unyielding.
From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by Hart, George
But to what oil varnish is not my present purpose; why should I seek to close the door on research and on experiment?
From Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. by Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry)
Did they use oil varnish, our successors would at all events reap the benefit, if not ourselves.
From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by Pearce, J. H. (Joseph Henry)
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