Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 00:46:08 -0400
At 6:38 PM -0800 99/2/21, jewelia wrote:
...
>is it really true that when rags were scarce in the northeast
>some yank who owned a paper mill imported a boat load of detombed egyptian
>mummies and unwound them to use their wrappings to make rag paper?
I read about this some 15 years ago in a conservation journal. It is a myth.
Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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