I went back to my copy of Blumann and didn't find the Medal toner you mention but found some funny archaic terms for chemicals like flower of sulphur. There are a lot of toners he listed that are for violet, green and other odd colors. It was fun to go back and look at what I used to have fun playing with years back. Ahh uranium toner... When I get a chance I'll make a new batch and just use the ammonium I have and the gold. I'll send "Jack" a note that Ammonium should be mentioned on his page. Unfortunately the window has closed for getting these recent prints toned. Have to exhibit them "plain". Eric --- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Nelson" <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 6:19 PM > Subject: [pure-silver] Re: I say Ammonium you say > Potassium > > > > Thanks Richard! > > Blumann's book here is circa 1937 and my edition > of > > Anchell's Cookbook is from 1994 so over a wide > spread > > of time nothing changed in my > references...although I > > wasn't around for Blumann haha! > > > > Too bad for me no one made any published notice of > the > > ability to substitute Pot. for Amm. that I could > > easily find. > > > > Eric > > > > I never even noticed this until you asked even > though > I've seen both versions a great many times. Anyway, > its > worth trying the toner. I suspect it will work even > without > the Gold Chloride although the color will be > different. > There is an older Hypo-Alum type toner with Gold > > Chloride called Gold-Medal toner, which I think > Blumann may > have in his book. It was included in Kodak formula > books > before Nelson's (1930). Hypo-Alum is in some ways a > PITA and > reportedly smells strongly of Hydrogen Sulfide. KBT > is > similar Hypo-Alum in that it produces cold-brown > tones in > comparison to indirect (bleach and redevelop) type > toners > but I suspect Nelson's is unique. > As you are probably aware a standard Gold toner, > which > produces bluish tones on untoned images, will > convert a > silver sulfide image to red. Gold toner can be used > with > partial toning in a sulfide toner to get bluish > shadows and > reddish highlights. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to > www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the > same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.