Check out this flashy harlequin of a button. The central nugget is a polished chunk of rootbeer Bakelite. But this old dandy doesn't end there. This button is collared in a Lucite frill that extends around the Bakelite nub like glorious flower petals or transparent rays of light. I love buttons that combine plastics and this is an exciting example of that. Lucite is a common type of see-through plastic that was invented after Bakelite. circa 1940.
-Sherbert McGee
Here's Day Three of the old advertisements I'm positing this week from classic issues of Fortune magazine. Several of these ads are in color and here's one of them. Bakelite Plastics were a novel industrial emergence and a lucrative way to construct household products during the 1920's, 1930's and the early 1940's. Eventually, other plastics (such a Lucite and Celluloid) overtook the market and hence Bakelite has become a highly collectible thing of the past. Hold onto the history...
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