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Gold rubber

Scope note

Pieces of pure rubber, typically soaked in turpentine or treated with paraffin to make it absorbent, and used to remove surplus gold from surfaces after tooling.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000262775

Created

12yrs ago

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