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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lizjewel, post: 1897012, member: 13874&quot;]I have come across a lot of bakelite jewelry in the past, all kinds, vintage and modern. </p><p><br /></p><p>Genuine Bakelite is not formed by moulding, it&#039;s extruded. Certain types of plastic have been misnamed bakelite but they&#039;re moulded, not extruded. </p><p><br /></p><p>Rings, IMHO, may have been made from extruded pipes but I have not seen many. They were never big when Bakelite WAS big in the late 1930s [am not talking about the 1990&#039;s <i>revival craze </i>here]. </p><p><br /></p><p>Bakelite back in the &#039;30s was flounted by movie stars and socialites in wide bracelet cuffs, funny necklaces, brooches with animals and fruit pending from them. These attachments were carved from bakelite pipes or blocks, not moulded in forms. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not that bakelite rings could not have been made back then but I don&#039;t believe they were very big in fashion at that time. Many plastic rings imitating bakelite circulated in the 1990s (Bakelite craze). </p><p><br /></p><p>The flaked off the areas on your ring speaks of a lacquer having been applied now worn off. Have you tried to find out what&#039;s under the lacquer?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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