A De-Luxe edition is limited to 100 copies and available in a slipcase. For all collectors and those who love radio memorabilia. It is the first book on Australian Bakelite radios : coffee table ...
Q We have an old Airline brand table-top radio, 10 inches wide and 7 inches tall. Is it worth anything, or should we just send it to recycling? A Your radio and its manufacturer have a fascinating ...
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John Sideli`s passion for vintage plastic radios began innocently enough. A veteran antiques dealer whose specialties in trade included colorful Bakelite and Catalin jewelry, Sideli started noticing ...
Made of a combination of phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite is a type of plastic that became popular during the 1930s and 40s as a material not only for jewelry, but for other consumer goods like ...
An elderly widow is still tuning in to the radio she bought as a newlywed more than six decades ago. Poppy Butcher bought her Busch Bakelite set with her late husband John, and 65 years later the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the art deco movement. Many more converts should be recruited this week, during the ...
When Leo Hendrik Baekeland invented Bakelite in 1907, he changed the world — ushering in the Age of Plastics and transforming the way people lived. The phenolic resin took off first as a superior, ...
AROUND the turn of the 20th century, Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland, a Belgian-born inventor, moved into a three-story turreted house known as Snug Rock in what was then the Harmony Park section of ...