Much to my surprise, I found the VDB print that I sepia toned a while back; it turned up when I was going through my stack of papers and film. Here's a scan... the colour you see is pretty accurate, and should show you why I don't like it.
The original print is pretty dark, so maybe this wasn't a good choice to test this process. All that shadow looks pretty bad when it's a dull mustard yellow.
Added after I originally posted this: I used the standard sepia toner process. I.e., I bleached the image with ferricyanide, potassium bromide ans sodium carbonate; then I redeveloped with thiourea and sodium hydroxide. The final colour can be controlled in redevelopment by changing the thiourea/hydroxide mix. I think for that I chose a mid-brown ratio. This is the reference I used:
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~simgrant/jackspcs/tpt.htm
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