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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1360750, member: 2844&quot;]I check my celluloid haircombs regularly, and this time one of them has developed celluloid disease.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> I immediately put it in a separate box, because I read it can spread to other celluloid items.</p><p>It is a signed ca 1920 Auguste Bonaz comb.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On this webpage I read that celluloid disease can be stopped by soaking the item in a solution of baking soda and water:</p><p><a href="https://vintage-celluloid-collectibles.com/care-of-celluloid" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vintage-celluloid-collectibles.com/care-of-celluloid" rel="nofollow">https://vintage-celluloid-collectibles.com/care-of-celluloid</a></p><p>The original source is a book by Shirley Dunn called “Celluloid Collectibles”.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any experience with this method, or have the book? What is the ratio of the solution?</p><p>The advice worries me a bit, because you are not supposed to get celluloid wet. A moist cloth or cotton bud, almost dry, is said to be as far as it goes.</p><p>Is there another way, a trade secret no one has shared with the www yet?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my Bonaz beauty, it used to be my grandmother&#039;s, and I have worn it too. Butterfingers AJ managed to break a bit off years ago, but it was still wearable.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]221094[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Disease nibbles on the edge of one corner and on some of the prongs</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221095[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221096[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Auguste Bonaz signature on the back:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]221098[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you for looking, and <u>Help Please</u>!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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