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2 unusual facts about Gold leaf


Gold leaf

Gold leaf has traditionally been most popular and most common in its use as gilding material for decoration of art (including statues and Eastern Christian icons) or the picture frames that are often used to hold or decorate paintings, mixed media, small objects (including jewelry) and paper art.

Law report

Gold leaf is traditionally used on the spine for the name of the reporter and for some decorative lines and bars.


Cordelia Wilson

Many of her paintings had frames she hand-carved in rustic Arts and Crafts style and gilded with sheets of gold leaf.


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Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway

Interiors were of polished oak, with teak mouldings and the ceilings of the First Class sections were covered in pale green Lincrusta, picked out with gold leaf.

Electrometer

The Bohnenberger electrometer, developed by J.G.F. von Bohnenberger, consists of a single gold leaf suspended vertically between the anode and cathode of a dry pile.

Giusto Manetti Battiloro

Once more in these years Manetti Gold leaf has been used in several prestigious operations in Italy and all over the world: the restoration of the spires of the skyscraper of the New York Life Building in New York, the great works of Tsarskoye Selo in Saint Petersburg, the reconstruction of the theatre La Fenice in Venice following the devastating fire of 29 January 1996, and the details of the Amerigo Vespucci (ship).

The following years see the company involved in many great works of restoration, years in which the company supplied its gold leaf for some of the greatest monuments all around the world, including the Palace of Versailles, the halls of Windsor Castle, the dome of the Church of the holy sepulchre in Jerusalem and many more.

Herbst Theatre

Eight large beaux-arts murals, created by Frank Brangwyn for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, adorn the walls while overhead five chandeliers hang from the blue and gold-leaf ceiling.

Joshua Barber

Stylized figures on hand-weathered paper and wood, often embellished with gold leaf, recalled the religious artwork and the Dead Sea Scrolls Barber saw on his travels.

Leon Roppolo

Leon Roppolo's compositions include the jazz standards "Farewell Blues" and "Milenberg Joys", "Gold Leaf Strut" or "Golden Leaf Strut", "Tin Roof Blues" (1923), and "Make Love to Me", which was a pop song using Leon Roppolo's music (from "Tin Roof Blues"), recorded by Jo Stafford in 1954, and by Anne Murray and B. B. King.

Serendipity 3

It is made with 5 scoops of the Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla covered in 23K edible gold leaf, drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porcelana, and covered with chunks of Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.

Shaheedur Rahman

He made his full One Day International debut on 31 March 1986 in the John Player Gold Leaf Trophy (Asia Cup) against Pakistan at the Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa and played his second match against Sri Lanka at the Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy in the same competition.