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Hi,
I have an Edwardian house (built 1910). Many of the rooms still have their original lime plaster and are coated in either a cherry red or dark green paint. The paint is matt, although I don't know whether that is just because it is old.
Does anyone know what these paints are likely to be - my house is pretty ordinary, so I assume they're bog standard for the time? I assume they are both linseed/lead oxide based, with the green coloured with arsenic. The cherry red is, to my mind, too dark to be iron oxide.
Was this intended as some sort of final coat (as in, the Edwardians who lived here had a uniformly red and green house ...) or a sealant/base layer over the lime before putting on wallpaper? The colours seem much too dark and heavy for the Edwardian period, to my mind.
I ask purely because I'm intrigued! I intend to leave everything as it is.
Thanks
JC
I have an Edwardian house (built 1910). Many of the rooms still have their original lime plaster and are coated in either a cherry red or dark green paint. The paint is matt, although I don't know whether that is just because it is old.
Does anyone know what these paints are likely to be - my house is pretty ordinary, so I assume they're bog standard for the time? I assume they are both linseed/lead oxide based, with the green coloured with arsenic. The cherry red is, to my mind, too dark to be iron oxide.
Was this intended as some sort of final coat (as in, the Edwardians who lived here had a uniformly red and green house ...) or a sealant/base layer over the lime before putting on wallpaper? The colours seem much too dark and heavy for the Edwardian period, to my mind.
I ask purely because I'm intrigued! I intend to leave everything as it is.
Thanks
JC