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  • Isenglass/mica sheets

    Any of my esteeemed colleagues know where I can buy isenglass sheets? Google turned up nothing.

    thanks in advance,
    K. Bartsch

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    Re: Isenglass/mica sheets

    ten figures
    Last edited by Vuhginyuh; 02-06-2004, 04:42 PM.
    B. G. Beall (Long Gone)

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      Re: Isenglass/mica sheets

      [QUOTE=K Bartsch] Google turned up nothing.

      Well Keith dear friend, ya gotta be able to spell before google works ;)

      Terre Hood Biederman
      Yassir, I used to be Mrs. Lawson. I still run period dyepots, knit stuff, and cause trouble.

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      Wearing Grossly Out of Fashion Clothing Since 1958.

      ADVENTURE CALLS. Can you hear it? Come ON.

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        Re: Isenglass/mica sheets

        Thanks Sister Lawson,

        I was hoping for bigger sheets than 6x8 but perhaps I can make do with these. BTW, IMHO better for use in certain lanterns than glass -- much lighter and less fragile -- and completely authentic.
        Cordially,
        K. Bartsch

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          Re: Isenglass/mica sheets

          Ohhhhhwwwweeeeee--ain't you a smart boy!

          Hurrying to steal your idea, just when I'd about started leaving lanterns at home because I was always having to replace the glass......
          Terre Hood Biederman
          Yassir, I used to be Mrs. Lawson. I still run period dyepots, knit stuff, and cause trouble.

          sigpic
          Wearing Grossly Out of Fashion Clothing Since 1958.

          ADVENTURE CALLS. Can you hear it? Come ON.

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            Re: Isenglass/mica sheets

            The folding lantern on Page 223 of Union EOG (Patent 46011 on the US Patent site) used Mica sheets. They appear in the patent description. There was a thread on the old site where someone stated that although the patent date is Jan 1865, they'd been present at a dig where one was found where the dig was dated to 1863 (?)

            John T
            John Taylor

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