TAA i.3.14.3
Handwritten notes on gold found in jewellery and other items from the New Kingdom, page 3. This page includes a quotation of Alfred Lucas' account published in The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff., and a quote from Dr Alexander Scott on rose gold (see TAA i.3.14.9). Professor Wood, Johnson, Matthey & Co., and James Ogden are also mentioned on this page.
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question is probably due to oxide of iron, but in
what manner it was produced is not known, as it
occurs on both sides of most of the objects on which
it is present. This suggests that the object may have
been dipped in a solution of an iron salt and then
heated. That this colour is inten is intentional is
shown by its regular and systematic distribution
on certain objects, or on certain parts of objects.”
Dr Alexander Scott, F.R.S., writes/<says (by letter> (May 1933) that
experiments by Professor R.W. Wood (U.S.A.), made <u> from
the point of view of the physicist, showed that the
gold from which the red-coloured sequins were made
contained iron. In May a year ago, Mr J. R. Ogden
got Messrs. Johnson, Matthey & Co., the gold experts, to
make an analysis of one of the sequins (from a
robe of Tut.Ankh.Amen – Author’s Note.) and they reported
that the alloy contained 1.55 per cent of iron. Doubtless
Mr Ogden sent to you a copy of the analysis which
fully explained the source of the colour, known for
years now to consist of nothing but oxide of iron.
My own analysis, since made with extreme care