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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 543179, member: 5833&quot;]A search for &#039;Catalin horse brooch&#039; turns up a number of similar pieces, which all then seem to be for sale as Bakelite.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know which of the many proprietary polymers this one is, but someone who specialized in Celluloid &amp; other early plastic jewellery once told me about a piece of mine that the use of plastic for everything but the pin stem itself indicates a WWII time period, when there was rationing of metals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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