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Featured Question about Lucite?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by Michelle Collins, Jun 3, 2019.

  1. Michelle Collins

    Michelle Collins Well-Known Member

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  2. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Please please please give me that problem.(LOL) I've only found one piece of jet in the last decade, and no bog oak at all. We Americans don't find much, if any at all.

    I have some WWII-era Lucite bits around; they're pieces of airplane windshields carved into souvenirs, as best I can guess. Some enterprising machinists made souvenir jewelry out of the busted up wind screens no longer fit for purpose. Later on of course they used bits made for sale to jewelry makers and carvers.
     
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  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    antidiem, i need help and scoutshouse like this.
  4. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

    I think it is metal sprayed black with missing rhinetones.
    What does the back look like?
     
  5. scoutshouse

    scoutshouse Well-Known Member

    ... if it's actually old, it may be Berlin iron with (missing) jet, French jet or rhinestones...

    Or japanned or lacquered base metal :)
     
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  6. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    It's definitely not metal some sort of early plastic or could well be vulcanite looking at your picture and it is old. Very tough as I cleaned out the stubborn old glue with a dental pick and it hasn't marked it.
    Stamped ‘Made in Gt Britain’
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  7. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Here are some ‘Genuine Lucite’ beads from Hong Kong. Whether that has anything to do with the chemical compound I don’t know or maybe just a hopeful selling pitch?.
    They look and feel like every other generic plastic bead, very smooth with the odd colour swirl and no mould marks or seams. I only kept them because of the interesting label or they would have been shipped off back to the charity shop!
    Seem new but could be new old stock.
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  8. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

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