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Jan 19, 2021 at 2:31 comment added Mark It's a very well known and named form of finish applied to furniture. Also, there is a type of finish used on screws called black japanned. I guess it's not something you might come across if you aren't involved with the trades that use the screws or if you deal in antique furniture. I am British and it might surprise you to know that we don't use the same language to describe how we would like our eggs done. 'Over easy" is nirvana description the vast majority of English people would understand. "Divided by a common language" is a phrase often used to make this point. Japanese lacquered furni
May 8, 2019 at 11:46 history edited GEdgar CC BY-SA 4.0
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May 8, 2019 at 3:28 comment added Hush I've never heard of "japan" being used to describe lacquer... Sounds wrong to me as Japanese-American 😕
Mar 29, 2019 at 13:38 history answered GEdgar CC BY-SA 4.0