Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy?

[Благодаров]

Thank you for your opinion . What about walnut ink I guess just because of the light brown color in the caption and frame sheet . And as I wrote it the same color . Burning does not exist in one place . Maybe ordinary ink or no ink . " Hard to say .
The first time after purchase really wanted to open the box and see , can on the reverse side there are some inscriptions , but fear that the sheet crumble in the incompetent hands of my curiosity overpowered . Left as is . And yet . Mounting frame ( only three survived ) of copper. On the flip side there is a sticker , or rather was . She was not frustrated , but faded almost completely. Individual traces of inscription in the box remained . Add a photo .

[Тихая Сапа]

Sorry that corrected . But please: Do not call Ferrogálica ink " nutty . " To the nuts ink " nuts " - the Gauls , are irrelevant .

A sign on the label , try to look into a good light bulb , it often reveals a faded ink inscription .
Maybe luck is something readable .

[Благодаров]

Thanks for the correction.

Thanks to your amendment recognized that such "iron-gallic ink" their history and properties of ...
So the "Chinese craftsmen" had nothing to do with it.
 
The rest will probably autopsy (ie, expertise).

[Toinen]

Ferrogálica ink, the main ingredient is "oak apple" - a painful ball-shaped outgrowth on a tree growing out mostly on leaves and thin twigs of oak. Such a build-up occurs when the gall-fly lays eggs into the growing bud, around which then formed a soft pale green ball. These "nuts" crushed and soaked with rain water in the sun or the fire. Sometimes, instead of rainwater used white wine or vinegar. This is the first component Ferrogálica ink.
     The second important ingredient is iron sulfate, also known as blue vitriol, iron sulfate or the salt of death. " Drew up his or found naturally in Spain, where he formed as a product of evaporation of moisture from the ferruginous soils. By the end of the sixteenth century vitriol, probably produced by placing the old iron nails into sulfuric acid. Vitriol mixed with ink crumbled nuts. The resulting liquid from the pale-brown slowly turns black. Added more milled gum arabic, not so much for tackiness, but for the viscosity of ink: goose feathers, unlike samopisok requires viscous ink (gum arabic - is dried acacia sap, shipped to Europe from Egypt and Asia Minor).

[Благодаров]

And most importantly they are very long ago fallen into disuse.
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Image and caption a very advanced age.
 
Can be prompt where you can make such examination.
 
Or you might not bother ??????

[Dogel]

Сообщение от Blagodaryov

should not bother ??????

Blagodaryov, do not waste energy, it's not worth it.
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