Shell silver

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A watercolor paint made by mixing silver powder with gum arabic. Shell silver was an expensive paint used for gilded surfaces in paintings and manuscripts as well as for decorative tooling on leather bindings.

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Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

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