Word: sienna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of their tests has been to replace old-style burlap and fishnet "flattops" for concealing big guns and trucks with new style drapes made of visinet, a light, durable paper compound. Fort Belvoir camoufleurs "dazzled" visinet drapes with green blotches to resemble vegetation, burnt sienna blotches to blend with Virginia clay soil. Solid color drapes they painted with a mixture of blue, yellow and red oil paints, producing a somewhat greener green than the usual olive drab of U. S. Army trucks. For solid brown drapes they mixed flat burnt umber and yellow ochre coldwater paints, made drapes look...
...Laurie shows how science defeats them -- even the ancient dodge of mutilation, in order to give the impression of age. He is a good raconteur, obviously full of the delights connected with his profession, and he tells many an interesting story about forgers like Icilio Federigo Ioni of Sienna, who fumed when an expert refused to look at a genuine picture which Ioni brought him--such had Ioni's reputation become. In a rage Ioni shouted: "When I bring him forgeries he buys them as genuine, and when I bring him genuine pictures he calls them forgeries." Mr. Laurie comments...