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#763 Anonymous Printing gold onto chocolate boxes

Anonymous

I worked in printing - George Harrisons and Son. We used to do a lot of chocolate boxes in gold. The way we did this was to feed the wet sheets into this machine which had a gold powder passing through the rollers. We were only able to work on this machine for a stated number of hours and had to have a pint of milk a day to wash the powder through our systems. It used to turn you yellow.