I am having good results with Mark Lee's solution which reportedly does not use Mercuric Chloride.
The point of this, I think, is that I seem to have about the best browns from the Commercial Mark Lee solution.
After trying most commercially available browning solutions over the years, I would agree with these two quoted sentences Leighton......
I've had, by far, the best success with Mark Lee's products, both blacking and browning, Express Blue #1 and Browning Solution #2.....
My experimentation ended years ago and I use Mark Lee's products exclusively.......I sent some to Tony Treadwell a few years back and he was utterly amazed and used it exclusively as well until his passing.......
Carding, clean up, waxing and
the results while using these products are much better IMO......
One of Tony's Greeners that he did.....
Best,
