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Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 9:20:00 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Bought a lot at an auction.  In the bottom of the box was a baggie with these inside.  The top pieces kinda look like bakelite and the largest piece is rumply.  The bottom pieces (which have carvings or some sort of imprint in  them) kinda' remind me of the material that was on knife handles from the 60's....but actually when I first looked at them, I thought they were broken up pieces of chocolate!  Do they look like anything you have ever seen??  Why would someone be saving this stuff?  Thank you! -Julie Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 9:25:06 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12277 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online Hmmm... does rosin turn dark like that?  (in reply to towhead) Post #: 2

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 9:30:28 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline I think I need to try to get a better picture.... -Julie (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 3

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:02:51 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Another picture Attachment (1) (in reply to towhead) Post #: 4

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:13:58 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12277 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online . it could be a bakelite or celluloid utensil handle.  < Message edited by cyberdigger -- 6/5/2009 10:18:37 PM > (in reply to towhead) Post #: 5

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:13:59 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Another Attachment (1) (in reply to towhead) Post #: 6

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:23:55 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Last one.... Attachment (1) (in reply to towhead) Post #: 7

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:32:43 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Thanks Charles....that's the word I was looking for (celluloid) when I used Bakelite!  Wonder why someone saved that kind of stuff? -Julie < Message edited by towhead -- 6/5/2009 10:35:32 PM > (in reply to towhead) Post #: 8

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:40:06 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12277 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online ..maybe who saved it was wondering the same thing?  ..or else they knew what it was.. (in reply to towhead) Post #: 9

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:47:22 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline I'm betting they did know what it was....Surely it must be diamonds and gold in disguise!!!!!!!  I'm rich!    Can't wait to tell the boss where the bear "who haws"   in the woods!  hee hee -Julie (in reply to cyberdigger) Post #: 10

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:53:10 PM    cyberdigger Posts: 12277 Joined: 11/29/2008 From: I 195 @ US 9, NJ USA Status: online   ..does it smell kinda musty.. a bit like sour milk? if yes then probably celluloid..  (in reply to towhead) Post #: 11

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/5/2009 10:54:50 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Well, I could not smell anything when I put each piece up to my nose, so....I rubbed each piece between my fingers and then smelled my fingers....and ooooh eeeeeew....the celluloid piece smells like a dead fish, and the other piece just smells like dirt (dusty road). -Julie < Message edited by towhead -- 6/5/2009 11:02:03 PM > (in reply to towhead) Post #: 12

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/6/2009 2:56:04 AM    Just Dig it Posts: 1357 Joined: 5/7/2007 From: The Whaling City Status: offline i opened a book that was my grandmothers the other day and a bunch of receipts for bread from 1969 fell out...who knows why people save what they do..packrats man packrats _____________________________ My other cars a bottle... (in reply to towhead) Post #: 13

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/6/2009 8:26:22 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Yeah Just Dig it, maybe they were gonna glue them back together or something.... -Julie (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 14

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/7/2009 2:51:16 AM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Just Dig it packrats man packrats Julie, you sure you didn't buy those from my husband? _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to Just Dig it) Post #: 15

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/7/2009 2:40:40 PM    capsoda Posts: 9832 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: offline Hey Julie, hold one of the tiny pieces with and old pair of tweezers and put a lit match to it. If it makes black smoke and turns black and crusty it is Bakelite. If it melts and smells like rotten eggs burning it is cellulose. If it just melts and becomes shiny it is rosin. Rosin was used by watchmakers and jewelers. It was also used to hold glass pieces together like to piece lamps. Cellulose was used to make glue. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ http://www.bornagainamerican.org (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 16

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/8/2009 2:12:54 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Hey Laur....now that I think about it, coulda' been! (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 17

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/8/2009 2:17:10 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Thanks for the info Cap!    -Julie (in reply to towhead) Post #: 18

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/8/2009 5:46:35 PM    RedGinger Posts: 6727 Joined: 12/7/2007 Status: offline Joe laughed at that!  He is so a packrat.  It's not even funny.  I told him I might need to burn his tool shed rather than sort through all the junk in there someday.  He said "Okay, just take out the bike first."  He has pieces of bottles all over the place too! _____________________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTdY2BI3g (in reply to towhead) Post #: 19

RE: Any idea what these are???? - 6/9/2009 1:14:28 PM    towhead Posts: 2679 Joined: 12/31/2004 From: GREAT LAKES Status: offline Yup!  It WAS him!  Riding a bike....he was covered with dirt and had a bunch of bags of broken glass and stuff hanging from the bike- and him!  (in reply to RedGinger) Post #: 20

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