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E present herewith to the public generally our sample book embracing our present 
 line of shades in Best Prepared Paint. 
 
 For many years it has been the custom among manufacturers of Paints to distribute 
 samples consisting usually of small squares, representing their various shades arranged in card 
 or circular form, for the purpose of aiding merchants in disposing of their goods, and giving 
 to the consumer a better opportunity of making his selection of shades. 
 
 With this book we propose lo depart from this time honored custom, and endeavor to 
 show to the public, exactly, the appearance of a house when painted with any of our 30 shades; 
 and to this end, we call your attention to the body color in each plate. 
 
 In trimming the various plates, we have had in view not only a preservation of the 
 ideas of harmony, but we have also taken a liberal range. Employing the same shade on 
 many plates with the idea of obviating the necessity to a merchant of carrying in stock so 
 great a number of shades suitable only for trimming purposes. 
 
 The combinations herein displayed are such as in our opinion, are best calculated to 
 impress the public favorably. We have used only new, popular and fashionable tints, and 
 even should there be nothing shown which would meet the approval of all, we feel assnred 
 that from the plates some ideas may be gathered which prove an assistance to them in arrang 
 ing a combination to suit their views. 
 
Why the Heath k Milligan Prepared Paints are the “Best." 
 
 will scarcely be denied that when Prepared Paints are composed of materials which 
 have been proved by long usage as the best known, and that when these are compounded 
 according to rules of proportion prescribed by the best painters and established by experience, 
 and that when these ingredients are ground together and intimately blended by processes far 
 superior to the laborious and old fashioned methods, the paints must be as perfect as it is 
 possible to make. Thus the Heath &: Milligan paints are made, and they are as far superior 
 to hand made paints as the best machine made American watches are superior to the cheap 
 hand made time pieces. 
 
 That Prepared Paints have not superseded all others argues nothing against their excellence. 
 Unfortunately for their complete triumph in popular esteem, they are .-eacniy counterrretea, 
 and from the date of their first manufacture, the market has been flooded with so called '‘Mixed 
 Paints,” which like everything else that is cheap , found ready sale. When their worthlessness 
 is proven by trial, the victims are ever ready to declaim against all prepared paints as a fraud 
 
E claim that our Best Prepared Paints are superior to most paints on the market. We 
 further claim that they are equal if not superior to any paint that can be prepared by a painter 
 in the ordinary way by hand. We know this is a pretty strong assertion, but we are ready and 
 willing to prove the truth or falsity of what we say. 
 
 We will furnish paint to cover one half of a building, the other half to be painted with 
 any other brand of paint ready for use, or paint prepared by the painter himself, he selecting 
 any pigment he may desire as a base, and using such material as in his judgment is best to 
 produce the required shade, If, in the opinion of a disinterested party, the Heath & Milligan 
 Best Prepared Paint is not superior to the other brand of paint in use, or equal in every essen- 
 tial respect to the paint prepared by the painter, so far as working qualities, covering proper- 
 ties and general appearance is concerned, there will be no charge made for the paint. If in 
 the judgement of the “referee” our paint proves equal or superior to the paint used against it, 
 the paint shall I e paid for; but we are-willing to go further; if cur paint at the expiration of one, 
 two, three or 'ive years is not equal to that prepared by the painter, as regards beauty of finish 
 ind durability, we will refund the money paid. 
 
is impossible to lay down a rule governing the amount of paint required for a given 
 surface ; both new and old weather-beaten work will require more paint than a smooth 
 and hard surface ; and amount will vary according to the nature of the work. On ordinary 
 surfaces ; one gallon of our Best Prepared Paint will spread two coats over 250 square feet and 
 the following rule will be found convenient in ascertaining the quantity of Paint required to 
 cover a desired surface. 
 
 To the number of feet in width, (front and rear) add the number of feet in length, 
 (both sides) ; multiply this by the average height, and the product will be the number of 
 square feet to be painted. This divided by 250, as one gallon of our Best Prepared Paint 
 covers 250 square feet of fair or smooth surface (two coats) gives the quantity required in gallons. 
 
 As is understood by every practical painter. Paint when mixed for use should be of 
 different consistency for priming or first coating and for second coating or finishing. Our 
 Best Prepared Paint as it leaves the factory is of the proper consistency for second coat work. 
 In priming new work or old weather-beaten work which has become dry and porous, this Paint 
 should be thinned with Pure Linseed Oil. 
 
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