What in the world? One of my favorite Bakelite anomalies is this totally bonkers toggle from the late 1920's and definitely an example of art deco extraordinaire. While the middle segment is bright red Bakelite, the conical ends are sturdy aluminum. I look at this button and all I can think of is a failed telephone that Alexander Graham Bell might've kept down in his cellar while he ironed the kinks out of his latest invention. Either that, or this could be a hybrid of a trumpet, an eggbeater, a boomerang and a satellite. I mean, is this button bananas or what? Truly a novelty of Jazz Age surrealism.
-Sherbert McGee
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