The Silver Witness: What a Mirror Records When No One Is Watching
The mirror was manufactured in Birmingham in 1832 by a firm whose name had worn off the back of the frame in the seven decades since. Its glass measured twenty-three inches by thirty-one inches, backed with a silver nitrate coating that had begun to show oxidation at the edges. The frame was mahogany, carved with a pattern of intertwined vines and flowers, though four of the carved petals had...
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