Sounds like a saintly stenographer.
Phillip's comments led me to getting down my file of gold prints.
I worked on the basis that all the processes that I knew were variations on
Herschels iron processes.
If you substitute gold chloride for platinum in the standard pt/pd processes,
use a thin negative and humidify the paper and develop in potassium oxalate, you
will get a quite respectable print in pinks, purples and blacks.
Slight variations can also lead to split colour prints in browns and blues.
But I am still looking for the lost chord.
I wrote an article for the BJP on the subject, with illustrations, they had
published my articles before, but they rejected it giving as their reason that
it contained too many ' I 's ! ! ! ! ! !
Terry King