> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Walter
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 10:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: Investigation of original paint colors on wooden windows
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>
> As to black windows, I found original black painted sash (with dark olive
> frames) on the 1895 house I worked on in Phoenix, in the 1970's.
> Looked good
> then, looks good now.

The ca. 1935 additions to my house had black-painted sash.  The windows had
been maintained once, and only once, in the intervening period between then
and when I bought it in 1993.  Where putty had failed, they used black
glazing compound to patch in, I estimate sometime in the 60s.  I hadn't seen
that before, and I'm not aware that colored glazing compounds are generally
available now.  Jim Hicks, are they?
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