bakelite??

[Decipha 10+ year member]

I'm selling 2 1940's era bakelite poker chip cases for a friend of mine on egay...

he told me that bakelite was a very expensive material and he seen some

identical poker chip cases sell for over $200 on egay... does any one have any

knowledge on bakelite or poker chip cases? I can understand it's antiqueness

and rarity, but these are only poker chips cases how can they be so expensive?

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[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

News to me that Bakelite was a "rare" material...I have boxes full of antenna insulators and high-voltage standoffs made from the stuff. It certainly wasn't rare or unique for industrial applications.

I don't know of the value of poker chips, though...might be worth a lot to certain collectors.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Bakealite was the first plastic pretty much. There was a lot of jewelry made from it and there are collectors out there. It's not exceedingly rare, but it was cheap back when it was "in" so a lot of the stuff was thrown away or treated poorly.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

It was the first commercially successful plastic...brought on by the need to make pool balls. There was something else before it, but it would have a tendency to explode with hard contact - not something you want to make billiards balls out of //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I did a project a while back on the history of plastics, so that's why I know that (semi) random fact //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[analogkid]

bakelite.....lmao sounds like someone who smoked chiba but didnt want to get too zooted.

 

[jsloan10 10+ year member]

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