Business & Office

The blue KLM tableware is made of melamine formaldehyde and dates from the fifties. Kornelis Caps & Closures produced the serving pieces, of which the PolyPlasticum has two dies and working drawings in its possession.

Ink Sets

After WWII many office items were made of bakelite. Ink sets, pens, pen and pencil boxes: almost all had a nice design.

Hobby

The Italian accordion ‘Corelli’ in Art Deco style dates from before 1940. The body and keys are made of 1940 celluloid (pearlite). There are also pictures of a bakelite mini-organ and a pigeon clock.

Many musical instruments are now made with modern plastics. That is also true for knitting and crochet needles, and other hobby materials.

Rookwaren

In de hoogtijdagen van het bakeliet, vlak na de oorlog tot in de jaren zestig, was er nog weinig bekend over de gezondheidsschade door tabak. Er werd volop gerookt. Tabakswaren zijn dan ook veel te zien in de collecties van bakelietverzamelaars.

‘beyond a joke’

Zoals asbakken van gevlamd en gevlekt bakeliet. Uit de sigarettendoos van bakeliet en leer in Art Nouveau-stijl sprong bij het drukken op een knopje een sigaret tevoorschijn: ‘When things are getting beyond a joke, up jumps a cigarette to smoke’.