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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).
Nov 15, 2012 · Two Italian companies, Montegrappa and Visconti are making beautiful pens from celluloid today. Montegrappa have been using celluloid since 1912 and Visconti since their inception in 1988: a modern company who have made it their business to revive the pen makers’ art of working with the oldest plastic material – celluloid.
Jan 31, 2013 · This post is a quick look at one of the popular forms of antique plastic, named celluloid. Celluloid is the trade name for a plastic that was widely used in the 1800s and early 1900s to make pins, fountain pens, buttons, toys, dolls, figures and many other products. It was commonly used as an ivory substitute, to make cheaper version of items ...
- What Is Celluloid and What Does It Look like?
- Is Celluloid Dangerous?
- 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...
The first celluloid as a bulk material for forming objects was made in 1855 in Birmingham, England, by Alexander Parkes, who was never able to see his invention reach full fruition, after his firm went bankrupt due to scale-up costs. [3] Parkes patented his discovery as Parkesine in 1862 after realising a solid residue remained after ...
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).
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Worked celluloid for wrapping. With the wrapping we proceed to the processing of a 2/3 mm celluloid sheet that is cut into long strips and rolled around a rod or passed through a cone. You get a tube to glue to the shape and leave to dry for 20 days. In this way the color will be uniform over the entire body of the pen, without wasting material.
