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In Vienna, there are five factories; in one of these, they make white wax, wax candles, matches, yellow beeswax, black heel-ball, colored tapers, and crayon pencils.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 Various
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Holding out his left hand, from which nothing could efface the stains of rosin and lamp-black and heel-ball, save the sweet cleansing of mother-earth, he would say,
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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"wax" appears rather to have been the forerunner of _gutta percha_ than of _heel-ball_.
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