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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… In the form of BLACKING it was used, for example, to polish and to colour articles like BOOTs and FIRE GRATEs and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… PENCILs. It was also employed to give a black metallic polish to IRON work, like STOVEs and GRATEs. A rather less …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and also to a black stain for LEATHER and black SHOE polish. This last is the most common. During the eighteenth century shoe polish was one of the products that attracted trade names to … BLACK but it came in various forms when used as a shoe polish for the greater convenience of users, like 'Bings …
Old and New London
… the furniture is rubbed up to the last degree of friction polish, and the carpets are brushed cleanly threadbare. The …