Analysis of Pigments in the Printing Inks of the First Japanese Postage Stamps, the Hand-Engraved Issues

Pigments in the printing inks employed for Japanese hand-engraved stamps, the first issues of Japanese postage stamps, were analyzed and characterized by means of FTIR, Raman, and XRF spectroscopy....

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