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Celluloids are a class of materials produced by mixing nitrocellulose and camphor, often with added dyes and other agents.Once much more common for its use as photographic film before the advent of safer methods, celluloid's common present-day uses are for manufacturing table tennis balls, musical instruments, combs, office equipment, fountain pen bodies, and guitar picks.
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- Why Some Pieces of Celluloid Deteriorates
Most people recognize the pale yellow pieces with graining that are meant to simulate ivoryas celluloid these days. Celluloid was often referred to as “French Ivory” in its heyday to give it a little more snob appeal and is sometimes marked as such. The composition, however, has nothing at all to do with genuine ivory harvested from animal tusks. A...
Some collectors do not realize that celluloid is an extremely flammable substance (especially since seemingly harmless items like dollsand toys were made with it), and it should be kept away from heat sources. An article on the Oregon Knife Club’s website attributes this detrimental characteristic of celluloid to be the reason it wasn’t used much a...
While celluloid was initially durable as a utility product, one downside to collecting this plastic is that some pieces don’t hold up well over time and can chip, crack, and crumble. Collectors refer to this as celluloid disease or celluloid rot. And while a definitive cause for this isn’t known, they have also discovered with dismay that it can ea...
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Nov 15, 2012 · Why Celluloid? Celluloid is widely hailed as the resin material for pens, but why? Celluloid and hard rubber or ‘ebonite’ were the first plastic materials to be used in pen making. Ebonite is natural latex rubber, which has been mixed with sulphur and heat-treated so that it loses it’s ‘rubbery-ness’ and becomes a harder, rigid material.
Apr 16, 2007 · There are actually very few plastic materials that have been successfully used in "quality" pens, for example: vulcanite/ebonite (hard rubber), celluloid (specifically cellulose accetate), PMMA (acrylic, acrylic resin, Permanite, Radite etc), polycarbonate (eg Makrolon) and ABS (mainly lower cost pens).
Jul 9, 2017 · Many brands (often Italian pen manufacturers) use a material called ‘cotton resin’. This is actually more related to celluloid than you’d think. Celluloid is made from nitrocellulose polymers, cotton resin is made from cellulose (cotton, the same as that found in your clothing, is nothing more than cellulose).
Celluloid Montegrappa. The brilliant look of precious fountain pens. Montegrappa subjects the celluloid to a particular drying process, in which the material is perforated to allow better ventilation: during the drying phase, which usually lasts six months, constant in-depth chemical analyses are carried out to monitor the moisture of the material and thus obtain a perfect celluloid fountain pen.
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celluloid, the first synthetic plastic material, developed in the 1860s and 1870s from a homogeneous colloidal dispersion of nitrocellulose and camphor. A tough, flexible, and moldable material that is resistant to water, oils, and dilute acids and capable of low-cost production in a variety of colours, celluloid was made into toiletry articles ...
