Posted 2 months ago
Steptoe1
(1790 items)
Hello I’ve just stumbled across a small box of bits and found some stuff I’d not seen for years, and didn’t even remember I had them because I hadn’t seen them so long, found this about 12 years ago, had a phase of reading up and searching for Bangles, thought this might of been Bakelite as I was searching for it. Then got confused with Lucite, then found other early plastics, it’s a minefield lol.
Bakelite will appear yellowish (vs clear lucite) and will not have seams. Bur you can test to verify..
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/ways-to-identify-bakelite-148495#:~:text=To%20use%2C%20dampen%20a%20cotton,the%20swab%20will%20turn%20yellow.
This definitely appears yellowish & has the clunky sound dav must be about 14 years ago when I buying these kind of things.