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Excerpt from Modern Pigments and Their Vehicles: Their Properties and Uses Considered Mainly From the Practical Side and How to Make Tints From Them
IT is to be regretted that notwithstanding it is a matter of prime importance that both dealers in painters' supplies and users of the same the painters and decorators should be well posted about the materials they handle, the vast majority have but the faintest ideas concerning the properties of pigments. One would naturally suppose that dealers ought to know all about them, their values, cost of production, qualities and defects. Without such knowledge they cannot truthfully answer the questions daily put to them. This ignorance has made it possible for unscrupulous manufacturers to palm off almost anything upon them. Every manufacturer and dealer has been a law unto himself, each differing from nearly everyone else in the trade. This lack of standards was really due to the indifference caused by the lack of knowledge on the part of both dealers and consumers. It has enabled the unprincipled to fleece an unsuspecting public out of millions of dollars.
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