Posted 8 years ago
katherines…
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I have this bracelet that I picked up as I was leaving a shop. It didn't have a seam so I thought it might be bakelite, but then I said to myself, dummy, bakelite isn't this color white. I looked at it under the magnifying glass and there are whorls, you can see one in the photo, there are several spaced out around the bracelet. I don't know enough about plastics to know what kind this is. Photo #1 is of the bracelet in light through the window, photo#2 and #3 are closeups indoor light, and photo #4 is outside so you can see the natural color. What do you all think? Thanks for looking.
ETA: Four new photos.
Hi Katherine!
Ivorine or ivoirine or French ivory, several names for this type of plastic made from formaldehyde and casein protein extracted from skim milk.
Very ivory like uh? :-)
Hello, my dear friend! :))
I thought ivoirine, too, but it doesn't look like my other ivoirine pieces. Those have wavery stripes. This looks like pools of spoiled milk, lol, that's the best way I can describe it. Some other sort of plastic?
Maybe Valentino, our Plastics Queen, with give her opinion :-)
Aren't you glad you got it now? A new word here for sure with ivoirine. It's pertty!
Thanks, Val, you know your plastics for sure. Okay, this is lightweight but not a brittle sound, tapping it sounds like ivory, but the pattern isn't there. I would suspect plastic but there's no seams. Not bakelite as the color is wrong. Arrrgh!!!! :P
Valentino, here are four different photos.
Yes, when I looked at the closeups I realized they were blurry, darn it. I'll try again to take some better pics, I've got some other jewels to photograph, will do them all in a bunch tomorrow. Thanks Val for your help. :)