authenticity ... milk paint
I read a lot of magazines about woodwork and furniture and you can bet your collection of Berg chisels that, once every 3 months, at least one American magazine will have an article about milk paint. I read the first, browsed the second and third and stopped reading as I thought there was no relevance to Australian restorations, Well, I went into a retro shop today, mainly clothes, linen, jewellery and household goods BUT there were also a few nice pieces of furniture. There was an Australian silky oak kitchen dresser , "circa 1930", very tidy, authentic catches and cupboard layout seemed original and, when I opened it up, the inside was painted in what looked like pastel green milk paint?
Was milk paint used in Austalia? I thought we had gone straight from oxides in linseed oil to 'modern' enamels in the 1920's?
fletty