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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3751982, member: 2844"]Galalith is a casein plastic.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really, it was developed for objects that were never made from ivory, such as whiteboards. But casein based plastics did turn out to be the most beautiful early plastic for jewellery, and the old pieces are still valued as such.</p><p>I have never heard of the material being used for 80s jewellery though, it was mostly used in the Art Deco period.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe you were thinking of celluloid? Celluloid was used mostly to imitate natural materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell, although it certainly came in other colours too. </p><p>Celluloid ivory, called ivorine or French ivory, has alternating even bands of ivory colour and an almost translucent darker shade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 3751982, member: 2844"]Galalith is a casein plastic.;) Not really, it was developed for objects that were never made from ivory, such as whiteboards. But casein based plastics did turn out to be the most beautiful early plastic for jewellery, and the old pieces are still valued as such. I have never heard of the material being used for 80s jewellery though, it was mostly used in the Art Deco period. Maybe you were thinking of celluloid? Celluloid was used mostly to imitate natural materials such as ivory and tortoiseshell, although it certainly came in other colours too. Celluloid ivory, called ivorine or French ivory, has alternating even bands of ivory colour and an almost translucent darker shade.[/QUOTE]
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