Fibre - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 65223 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 31.02 BOMBACACEAE Adansonia sp | Entry Book Number | 93.1908 | |
| Artefact Name | Fibre | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Fibre | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | FibreUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Not defined | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Gibbs Miss E | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Valued at 14 pounds 5/- per ton, free in Liverpool or London in 1871 Miss E Gibbs see letter 229.1908 Letter dated 15th Dec 91, Dear Sir, Agreeable with your request I beg to hand you a fair commercial sample of Adansonia fibre the price of, which today is 14 pounds 15/- per ton free in Liverpool or London. Its very scarce but the great price almost excludes it from the paper makers the waste as you will see would be considerable in boiling and bleaching but when done it produces a magnific, ent pulp and as I told you your friends Colemans are using large quantities. I believe it does not take a high percentage of caustic soda to boil in as Espento does, but you will see that Espento @ 81 is nearly as cheap again. If at any time I can be of, some service to you I shall have great pleasure in sending any substance or to give an opinion as to any fibre. Wishing you every success in you present undertakings and that you will be able to give us poor papermakers a cheap and better fibre than isk, nown to the world at the present time. That such fibres do exist I am perfectly well aware that they are plenty but for persons here the time and money to spare to develope (sic) these things. You are the first I have found who has taken so much trouble, and ..?.. to so large an expense. ND Edward (?) | ||||