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The use of a little gum guacum in solution will be found occasionally advantageous; this gum is fairly hard and will lower the colour and prevent too much of an approach to gaudiness, that is, if a highly coloured varnish has been found necessary.— The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.
The idea of gaudiness is apt to associate itself in our minds with Indian trappings, but we must confess that the simple grace and force of these rustic adornments would put to shame many a glittering article of more modern wear.— Wampum A Paper Presented to the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia
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