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| Designer: |
unknown |
| Lenght: |
60 mm / 6 cm |
| Width: |
32 mm / 3,2 cm |
| Condition: |
good |
| In Stock: |
1 |
| Price (each): |
€ 95,00 - 円 11.626,67 - $ 129,21 |
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"bakelite" is the brand name for the first thermosetting plastic, which was invented by Leo Hendrik Baekeland in 1907 and manufactured by his General Bakelite Company (later the Bakelite Corporation). It is now a registered trademark of the Union Carbide Corporation. Bakelite's uses ranged from the purely industrial to the colorfully decorative, and it was the forerunner of all thermosetting plastics made from dast phonolic resins. |
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Today there are three major categories of collectible plastic jewelry: pyroxylin (Celluloid), casein (Galalith), and cast phenolic (Bakelite). |
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For making costume jewelry, cast phenolic resins were used because they possessed better decorative and color properties and because they did not require expensive molds and moding equipment. The colors were still quite limited (red, green, yellow, maroon, brown and black were the whole spectrum), but there were no limits to the decorative use of phenolic resins in cutlery, kitchenware, smoking articles, desk sets, vanity sets, poker chips, radio cases, clock cases and of course, costume jewelery |
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