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Brimming
over with over 150 full page, luscious photographs
of superb jewelry, Best of Bakelite and Other
Plastic Jewelry is a treasure chest of bakelite,
celluliod and lucite vintage plastic design.
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the
amazing range, the indefatigable humor, the
high style, the good-hearted silliness, the
streamlined chic, the daring inventiveness,
the color, and the form that characterize Bakelite
jewelry. It is emblematic of a unique culture
that only could have blossomed between a depression
and a world war. A sign of the times, Bakelite
baubles were a valentine to optimism, a what-the-hell
gaiety, a feeling of"making hay while the sun
shines." So what if you had no money! Just pin
some dime store cherries on your old blue serge
lapel, tilt your felt chapeau, and go get 'em!
Several of today's leading bakelite collectors
lent their finest pieces of this book. Layered,
carved molded, translucent, painted, and imbedded
jewelry styles are displayed in profusion. The
captions include the values guide with selections
ranging from the common to exceedingly rare.
This book presents excitement and the best plastic
jewelry to be found.
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