Bakelite

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

Are there any bakelite collectors out there? I have several very nice carved bangles, earrings, and various jewelry pieces as well as some clocks that have bakelite elements.

What are your favorite pieces and best buys? Also, have you noticed the reproductions that are out right now? I saw this very close replica of one of my favorite bakelite bracelets at Old Navy for $7.50 and I almost choked:

(Sorry if this has already been posted as a main topic.)

 

[scotrace]

Is that the very same that is on your left arm in your avatar picture?

This is my neatest piece. My alarm clock. It flashes a bright light before it buzzes.

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[jitterbugdoll]

I love bakelite, and celluoid, too.

I have two cherries and log brooches, a cherry necklace, spacer bracelets, and a number of earrings. Charlotte Russe was selling some nice carved fakelite bracets a while back for less than $5--I bought one in green. I also have a complete set of flatware for six (red), and another set of matching forks and knives for six (green). I also have a radio, courtesy of Wildroot.

As for celluloid, I have a number of brooches, chunky necklaces, and earrings, as well as two WWII sweetheart pieces--a jointed sailor brooch and gold star dress clips connected by red, white, and blue chains.

Bakelite and celluloid jewelry is my all-time favorite

 

[SHARPETOYS]

Is that the very same that is on your left arm in your avatar picture?

This is my neatest piece. My alarm clock. It flashes a bright light before it buzzes.

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Its called a Moon Beam...I have a repro of it ... WESTCLOX 1950 MOON BEAM BIG BEN. Great clock...

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

Is that the very same that is on your left arm in your avatar picture?

This is my neatest piece. My alarm clock. It flashes a bright light before it buzzes.

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Yes indeed it is that bracelet, good eye

I love that clock! They sell a repro but I'd love an original.

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I love bakelite, and celluoid, too.

I have two cherries and log brooches, a cherry necklace, spacer bracelets, and a number of earrings. Charlotte Russe was selling some nice carved fakelite bracets a while back for less than $5--I bought one in green. I also have a complete set of flatware for six (red), and another set of matching forks and knives for six (green). I also have a radio, courtesy of Wildroot.

As for celluloid, I have a number of brooches, chunky necklaces, and earrings, as well as two WWII sweetheart pieces--a jointed sailor brooch and gold star dress clips connected by red, white, and blue chains.

Bakelite and celluloid jewelry is my all-time favorite

I have been trying to buy one of those log brooches for about a year now! I always lose by .50 or so...and I would really hate to spend more than $50. Hope you got yours for great prices! Flatware is my next collectible - orange is my kitchen accent color so I am going to go for that shade.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

I have laquered wood version, too (you have to be carefull--sellers will try to pass these off as bakelite. They are also valuable since they are more rare, but bakelite is the collectors item to have right now)--I paid around $75 for each. That's a good price as bakelite cherries are very, very popular and for a while, sold in the $300s on eBay. The market seems to have cooled down though.

 

[scotrace]

Its called a Moon Beam...I have a repro of it ... WESTCLOX 1950 MOON BEAM BIG BEN. Great clock...

Mine's an original!

(and neener neener)

(The go for around $30 on Ebay, last I checked)

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I like to wear this when I feel like being sparkly...BARGAIN at $25

 

[fortworthgal]

Another bakelite and celluloid lover here!

Last weekend during our camping trip I picked up two celluloid hairbrushes for $8 each at an antique store. Perfect for my WWII women's footlocker display!

 

[Marc Chevalier]

I collect bakelite tobacco pipes and bakelite lighters from the '20s and '30s.


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[ideaguy]

I've begun a collection of Bakelite and celluloid in tortoiseshell patterns-got my wife 3 great handbags ( actually boxes with a clear embossed pattern lucite top), quite a number of bracelets, trying to stay with real vintage-very hard, the repro man is hard at work. Have glasses, of course, but also won a set of glasses (tumblers) in a tortoiseshell pattern, handmade in France pre-1940...
cool stuff-the jewelry is phenomenal in design for the price!:eusa_clap

 

[decodoll]

I adore bakelite, but I haven't much of it due to what a lot of it costs. I have a bunch of earrings. You can find those pretty inexpensively. And a few spacer bracelets, plus a clamper similar to yours, Bella, that my Aunt gave me. I've been watching ebay for a cherry pin also, ever since I noticed the prices had started to come down. I have a wiener dog pin newly made from a vintage bakelite rod. I also have my alumesh purse with the bakelite handle and some flatware.

 

[fortworthgal]

Today at an estate sale I picked up a large handheld celluloid mirror for $5.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Its called a Moon Beam...I have a repro of it ... WESTCLOX 1950 MOON BEAM BIG BEN. Great clock...

OH MAN, I'm SO going to buy that clock right now, thanks Scotrace & Sharpetoys! :eusa_clap

Swing High,
- C H

 

[Miss Dottie]

I love love love Bakelite! And celluloid.

I have a couple of bakelite radios--a nice green one that is sitting in my parents' house.

I would like to add my bakelite jewelry collection, but it's just so darn pricey!

Jitterbugdoll, you kill me with the "fakelite"!

Sometimes I'll go fakelite just for the ease of it with Classic Hardware, but even the fakelite can get pretty pricey.

Oh and I'd kill for a bakelite purse. They are just too dreamy for words!

 

[Tony in Tarzana]

My bakelite collection is all black and all in the handsets of my old telephones. Nice hefty feel.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

My first golden era record player (that didn't have a crank

Swing High,
- C H

 

[FedoraGent]

My first golden era record player (that didn't have a crank

Swing High,
- C H

CHC,

OMG man that's beautiful, where did you get it and does it play well?

Jon

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

CHC,

OMG man that's beautiful, where did you get it and does it play well?

Jon

Hi FedoraGent,

Glad you like it!

There many makes and models of this type, but this is a circa mid-40s "Admiral" brand, they turn up on eBay from time to time for fairly cheap, because they always seem to need some amount of restoration, though it's not rocket science long as you have those 40s Sams service books for the changer mechs & know the name West-Tech.

Got it at a flea market not working for $20 and restored it like most the others. It plays well (luckily the chrystal pickup didn't need to be rebuilt). Maybe will someday find time to take & post photos of all the machines in one blow (windups, early electrics, 2 jukes...)

Swing High,
- C H