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1. Copper Gall Ink

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   Historical Applications
   Copper gall ink saw specialized use, particularly in cartography and legal documents requiring temporal ambiguity. In Renaissance Italy, CGI was preferred for signing contracts where a delay in the contractual obligations was implicitly understood; the reddish undertone (visible only microscopically) signaled the document's potential for later, slower fading, acting as an internal, non-verbal caveat against immediate enforcement [6].
   The ink was also notoriously difficult to forge…