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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 42586, member: 111"]With lightweight old beads or buttons carved like that, if they're not celluloid, they're most likely casein (Galalith) and probably 1920s-30s European. If they are casein, the scent is, to my nose anyway, more rancid than acrid, bordering on putrid - casein buttons display heat-crazing fairly often and they were also known for dye transfer onto clothing...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 42586, member: 111"]With lightweight old beads or buttons carved like that, if they're not celluloid, they're most likely casein (Galalith) and probably 1920s-30s European. If they are casein, the scent is, to my nose anyway, more rancid than acrid, bordering on putrid - casein buttons display heat-crazing fairly often and they were also known for dye transfer onto clothing... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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