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<p>[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 838387, member: 267"]Yes, reverse painted with foil, or tinsel. These were popular crafts in the mid to late 19th c - they looked great in fire and candle light, I bet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a fancy pair of tinsels from an estate I worked on, from a kit as detailed in the article below.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://collation.folger.edu/2012/04/rehousing-our-tinsel-print-collection/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collation.folger.edu/2012/04/rehousing-our-tinsel-print-collection/" rel="nofollow"><font size="5"><b>Rehousing our tinsel print collection</b></font> Folger Shakespeare Library</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]194864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]194863[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]194865[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="scoutshouse, post: 838387, member: 267"]Yes, reverse painted with foil, or tinsel. These were popular crafts in the mid to late 19th c - they looked great in fire and candle light, I bet. Here's a fancy pair of tinsels from an estate I worked on, from a kit as detailed in the article below. [URL='https://collation.folger.edu/2012/04/rehousing-our-tinsel-print-collection/'][SIZE=5][B]Rehousing our tinsel print collection[/B][/SIZE] Folger Shakespeare Library[/URL] [ATTACH=full]194864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]194863[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]194865[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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