On Friday, 24 March 2000 08:00:00 UTC, Stuart Noble wrote:
Ashley Phoenix wrote in message 0470528e.3ebf2e6a@usw-ex0101-

=linseed oil.

Not the dearest of ingredients. I don't know whether teak oil would be based
on raw or boiled linseed (prob the latter) but I imagine it just has a
solvent with it to enable it to penetrate oily woods.
As the basis of most Victorian paint, linseed oil should form a good film,
though I read somewhere that it does contain minute "holes". Maybe it was
its microporous properties that have made it last so well.

Victorian paints worked well because the pigments were often deadly poisons.
They used turpentine and linseed oil.
Pigments were things like oxides of lead, mercury, cyanide and arsenic.