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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4518074, member: 36"]All I use are q-tips, some water, and baking soda. Get the q-tip damp and dunk in the baking soda. Rub on the inside of the bracelet, hard, preferably next to your nose. The real stuff will stink of formaldehyde and the q-tip will turn yellow or brown. If it's celluloid you'll smell camphor, or should. Galaith was a bakelite-type plastic made of rotten milk. Pongs of it too if you test it. The color change isn't definitive; tobacco smoke does almost the same thing. The stink however is tough to fake.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 4518074, member: 36"]All I use are q-tips, some water, and baking soda. Get the q-tip damp and dunk in the baking soda. Rub on the inside of the bracelet, hard, preferably next to your nose. The real stuff will stink of formaldehyde and the q-tip will turn yellow or brown. If it's celluloid you'll smell camphor, or should. Galaith was a bakelite-type plastic made of rotten milk. Pongs of it too if you test it. The color change isn't definitive; tobacco smoke does almost the same thing. The stink however is tough to fake.[/QUOTE]
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