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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8590454, member: 78949"]Love the first red faceted Bakelite necklace! The amber one is also very nice but the red one is marvelous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cannot help much on beads ID but fully agree with Marie on mold seams and marks. I have myriads of plastic bead necklaces with similar traces of molding. I would love to have a Bakelite one, unfortunately, my Bakelite collection consists of just one bangle that tested positive with the cotton bud and oven cleaner test (not simichrome, local brand).</p><p><br /></p><p>Some ordinary plastic also can be UV reactive, as I found out with very simple modern earrings that glowed under UV light (I even posted them here in astonishment) </p><p><br /></p><p>Here plastic bead necklaces are found cheap and easily but Bakelite is known and sought after, so every time I buy something hoping to be Bakelite, it turns out with mold seams or marks <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> or if not, does not test positive <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> This is how I accumulated many such pieces, tried to research the exact plastic but gave up at some point. Tons of information online, often contradictory. I just make difference by its weight - lightweight so Lucite or celluloid, more often Lucite, heavy - some kind of resin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 8590454, member: 78949"]Love the first red faceted Bakelite necklace! The amber one is also very nice but the red one is marvelous. I cannot help much on beads ID but fully agree with Marie on mold seams and marks. I have myriads of plastic bead necklaces with similar traces of molding. I would love to have a Bakelite one, unfortunately, my Bakelite collection consists of just one bangle that tested positive with the cotton bud and oven cleaner test (not simichrome, local brand). Some ordinary plastic also can be UV reactive, as I found out with very simple modern earrings that glowed under UV light (I even posted them here in astonishment) Here plastic bead necklaces are found cheap and easily but Bakelite is known and sought after, so every time I buy something hoping to be Bakelite, it turns out with mold seams or marks :( or if not, does not test positive :( This is how I accumulated many such pieces, tried to research the exact plastic but gave up at some point. Tons of information online, often contradictory. I just make difference by its weight - lightweight so Lucite or celluloid, more often Lucite, heavy - some kind of resin.[/QUOTE]
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