Lead acetate can be made by boiling elemental lead in acetic acid + hydrogen peroxide. This is the method I decided to use. It's also possible to start with lead carbonate, oxide, or hydroxide.

Apparently my lead metal wasn't 99.9% percent pure like stated. I noticed a white oxide precipitate that I believe to be either antimony trioxide, or tin dioxide. It was decanted off as best as possible. Filtration was unsuccessful due to the precipitate being in a colloidal state, and my filters are much too porous.

The lead acetate crystals pictured is lead acetate decahydrate. There was a small amount of water left over (about 10ml) after freeze crystallization was carried out. This was decanted. It is the impurest part of the subject.

The lead acetate crystals pictured is probably 98% pure. A small amount of ice cold water can be added, the mass mixed up/swirled, and then decanted to further purify it to roughly 99.5%. A small to moderate amount of lead acetate will be lost during this procedure though. I do not recommend it. It is fine for most uses.

Please dispose of the decanted fractions properly. Do not fool yourself - this is a toxic material. Do not pour down the drain, in the toilet, or outside on the ground. Precipitate it with a base: either hydroxide, or carbonate. It then becomes easier to dispose of properly, or it can be stored (which is the preferred way, and re-used).

This will be used to make lead chloride by mixing with stoichiometric amounts of iron (III) chloride, and lead acetate. The products are lead chloride as a white precipitate, and a red solution of iron (III) acetate. Sodium chloride, or any other soluble chloride can be used here. It's your choice. The lead chloride I made will be added to three times the weight of ammonium chloride, and then subjected to careful sublimation to obtain the sulphur of lead.