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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 514299, member: 5833&quot;]Nothing really dumb about your question.&nbsp; My answer is dumber:&nbsp; I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Plastics have their own rich history.&nbsp; There must have been all sorts of recipes for polymers in addition to names we know, like Celluloid, Bakelite, Galalith...&nbsp; Some version of Galalith seems probable, since the fundamental component is milk:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Think [USER=2844]@Any Jewelry[/USER] can correctly explain the use of the term &#039;hill silver&#039;.&nbsp; It was tossed around a bit loosely at the bead store, where it seemed to mean silver of unknown quality of uncertain Asian origin used in &#039;ethnic&#039; beads.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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