There seems to be a market these days for every type of vintage collectibles under the sun, and Bakelite and antique plastic jewelry vintage collectibles are certainly no exception. These vintage jewelry collectibles include antique and vintage jewelry made from Bakelite as well as from vintage types of plastic include celluloid, Lucite and more. These items have gained a significant amount of respect in the world of vintage collectibles and they are now being sought after much more every year because all generations are beginning to collect these unique vintage collectibles not only in the form of vintage plastic jewelry, but also vintage plastic kitchenware, utensils, flatware and so much more.
Many people do not realize how many of the items that they grew up with in their childhoods were actually made out of what we now perceive to be vintage plastics like Bakelite and Lucite. The handles of your flatware and your eating utensils, kitchen clocks, ice cream scoops and egg beaters, plastic radios, sugar shaker tops, can openers, pot handles, telephones and so many other items were made out of Lucite or Bakelite, and even sometimes the two plastic materials were combined in order to create new items including two tone flatware and stunning costume jewelry. There were a variety of different patterns that began to surface when it was discovered that Bakelite plastic and Lucite plastic could be combined, no longer limiting these plastic items to solid colors only. One of the most popular designs was checkerboard, but there were also dot patterns, animal patterns and pearlized designs to choose from.
These plastics such as Lucite and Bakelite were primarily made so that the public could be provided with items at less expense, especially when money was tight during the World War II era. Plastics like Celluloid have actually been around since before the 1900s. The Celluloid plastic is a vintage plastic that was originally developed by a man named John Wesley Hyatt in the year 1869 and then it was widely used up until 1917, especially during part of the Art Deco era. Bakelite is a different type of plastic that is not capable of being melted in the same way that most plastics can be melted. Bakelite is actually an early Polymeric plastic that was made from a type of Phenol Formaldehyde Resin that was invented by a man named Leo Hendrik Baekeland in the year 1907, but what he was actually trying to create was a type of varnish, not a type of plastic.
If you have Bakelite plastic or other types of vintage collectibles made from plastic, you should be gentle with them no matter how sturdy they look. You should always buy the pieces that you like and you should always be creative when purchasing vintage collectibles made from vintage plastics. Your Lucite, Bakelite and Celluloid pieces should be stored beautifully so that people can see them and enjoy them rather than storing them away where they cannot be seen or appreciated.
Photo Credits: TCM Hitchhiker
Originally posted 2009-07-02 05:14:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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