Notes:
Batch book.
Ledger book with tan leather cover. Detached cover has small label on upper right corner with "no. 4" written in blue ink. Many loose pages; 3 inserts laid in. Last 33 pages are blank.
This item is part of the Louis Heidt collection.
Several recipes in this book are transcribed in Batch book no. 8 (CMGL BIB 144838).
Louis Heidt collection
In English, with some recipe titles in French.
Digitized by Boston Photo Imaging September 2015.
Contents:
Art. human eyes, flint --
1 gramm 15 1/2 grain --
Opal ; S; Canary --
Reset almand pour verre, opal 1 ; Flint comon 2 ; Flint dito 3 --
Verr jaunne 4 ; Verte annas 5 ; Jaunne sitran 6 --
Violet 7 ; Verte frais 8 ; Opal 9 --
Opal vert 10 ; Bluex turcois 11 ; Albaster 12 --
Emaill blanc; Comun ; Jaun canary --
Coper ruby beast no. 1 A --
Opal for pleat no. 1 --
Compositions of white glasses and glass works of all hues and varieties of colors and good recipes by Jean Nicolas Walter (4 p.) --
White ; Heavy blue ; Sky blue --
Green ; Blue ; Lilac blue --
Amber ; Amber ; Black ; Purple --
Green ; Another green ; Green --
Double green (for doublet) ; Blue sapphire ; Double blue (for doublet); Blue --
Sky blue ; Yellow amber ; Jaspite (marble color) ; Copper red --
Gold red ; Yellow glass --
Green, sea water ; Amethyst or color purple lilac ; Paris red --
Brown or brick color ; Ordinary crystal for moulding and cutting --
Another composition for crystal done at South Ferry for moulding ; The best quality of crystal --
Crystal for doublets --
Ordinary soda crystal ; Ordinary glass without lead --
Ordinary glass for chimneys and lamps ; Ordinary crystal for lamp glasses --
Canary, beautiful yellow color ; White glass, opaque --
Tender white opal --
Opaque blue ; Alabaster (rice paste) --
Alabaster clear blue ; Alabaster green orient ; Blue opal ; Red opal --
Other opal ; Ordinary amethyst ; Beautiful green color --
Ordinary green ; French enameled white --
Turquoise color of birds eggs ; Another turquoise ; Golden ruby, fine color for doublet --
White opal ; For yellow canary --
White enamel composition --
Composition colors upon glass a la muffle --
Canary yellow ; Blue color ; Cheap colors --
Green color ; Yellow color, dark straw ; Clear blue --
Opal for a pot of 600 lbs ; Blue glass --
Rice paste white ; White glass --
Moonlight blue ; Recipe for yellow glass for paillette which is used on the objects of colored glass --
Silver solution --
Red glass --
Red glass (ruby) (2 p.) --
Paris red ; Syrian --
Bases comp. ; Topaz ; Ruby ; Emerald --
Sapphire ; Amethyst ; Aigue marine; Grenade --
Enamel composition.
