Question for someone older ...

[Freedom]

I'm not finding a Lord anything. Maybe you mean Logwood?

http://www.paintmaking.com/historic_pigments.htm

And :

Logwood Inks write a purplish black and dry black, and are in general use in schools and for other purposes where absolute permanency is not required.

From this site: http://www.evanlindquist.com/otherme...dinknotes.html

The sample looks more blue than black on this page: http://www.evanlindquist.com/otherme...dinknotes.html

[Karen]

I'm not finding a Lord anything. Maybe you mean Logwood?

http://www.paintmaking.com/historic_pigments.htm

It was not Logwood, that's for sure. And the one I am thinking of specifically was not purplish when thinner, more on the teal side of blue than the purple side like Indigo ink is.

[pomtzu]

Well I certainly qualify as "older", , but there are no bells ringing here in DE.

Asiel might know - she does a lot of art work, but hasn't been around much lately either, due to some illness in her family. I'll be emailing her later today or tomorrow, so I'll have her take a look at this thread. She's even "older" than I am!!!

[RICHARD]

Go look up the company, if you know it? Look up ink manufacturers and look at their inventory.

[Karen]

Go look up the company, if you know it? Look up ink manufacturers and look at their inventory.

I do not remember what the name of the company was, and it may have been a bottle I inherited from my grandmother. I could draw you the bottle shape, but ink manufacturing has changed a whole lot in the last 50-100 years, and a lot of old colors have been abandoned for being unstable, not light-resistant, etc.

[Karen]

I got the answer from cybersibes! Payne's Grey - my bottle said "Lord Payne's Grey" but he was not a lord, so I do not know why it was labeled as such!

Some history:

"The color Payne's Grey is named after a British watercolorist and art lecturer, William Payne (1760--1830), who recommended the mixture to students as a more subtle alternative to a gray mixed from black and white. In Artist's Pigments: c.1600-1835 Payne's grey is stipulated to originally have been "a mixture of lake, raw sienna and indigo."

from http://painting.about.com/od/artglos...PaynesGrey.htm

[Freedom]

I came back hoping you had the answer, and yup, you do! Great news!

[cyber-sibes]

I got the answer from cybersibes! Payne's Grey - my bottle said "Lord Payne's Grey" but he was not a lord, so I do not know why it was labeled as such!

Some history:

"The color Payne's Grey is named after a British watercolorist and art lecturer, William Payne (1760--1830), who recommended the mixture to students as a more subtle alternative to a gray mixed from black and white. In Artist's Pigments: c.1600-1835 Payne's grey is stipulated to originally have been "a mixture of lake, raw sienna and indigo."

from http://painting.about.com/od/artglos...PaynesGrey.htm

Glad I could help - that's an interesting bit of history, Karen!