Hi, I recently purchased a bathroom/apothecary canister set, they stack inside each other and have terms written across the front in latin. One says “Gossypion” cotton?
another “pulvis” dust or powder? the other “crinale” hair?
The bottom is marked Plastic Molded Arts Company, Long Island city, New York. I can’t find any information on the internet about it, except that Plastic Molded Arts Company in Long Island City New York, used to make dolls, that are collectible now. Does anyone have any history on the company..are they still in business?
Is molded plastic the same as celluloid? How does one price such an item for resale?
Thanks in advance
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CrowsCottage Reputation: 14 See CrowsCottage's booth |
Hi
can you post some pics or add the items to your booth at a high price for now so we can see it and maybe help you?
Hard molded plastic is not the same as celluloid.
As a follow up,
if you can’t figure out to post pics here (I also don’t know how to do that either so don’t feel bad)
just put the item in your booth with a very high price so then we call all go look at them and see what ya got.
:-)
I see you added the pics, but the pic is too small to get a good look at them to decide what they are made of.
They are cute from what I can tell. I would list them and give them a go.
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Vintagemaven Reputation: 629 See Vintagemaven's booth |
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Just right click to paste copy the image and make sure to add a “!” singl exclamatory mark beginning and at end of link and the image will appear.
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MONTROSE Reputation: 8354 See MONTROSE's booth |
Hi Maven…and ty…I will take some pics and try to put them in here but not sure how to do it…will try and figure it out..maybe they are nothing but junk, but I think it must be worth a couple of bucks because it was made in America. update…I took pictures but can’t figure out to get them in here…anyone have suggestions? Thanks!
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This is the best I could do so far…it wouldn’t just let me copy and past the pic to here, even with the!’s Hope it works
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CrowsCottage Reputation: 14 See CrowsCottage's booth |
Here’s a link to all the instructions on how to post a picture here as well as make it clickable. Good luck!
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OnTopOfJunkMountain Reputation: 86 See OnTopOfJunkMountain's booth |
Hi there! Was able to look at the picture on photobucket. It appears plastic. Celluloid is somewhat thicker. But, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a treasure! Vintage vanity items are highly collectible & not only that, what you have is still functional too!
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la-boo-teek Reputation: 46 See la-boo-teek's booth |
Hello Nymph, Molded plastic is not the same as celluloid. Celluloid was invented shortly before the civil war and by 1930 was being replaced with Bakelite then Catalin. Celluloid is very flameble and brittle and decomposes and so Bakelite was a better product. By 1950 Bakelite was being replaced by modern hard plastics. It is still used for limited applications. I suspect your set is the 1950’s type hard plastic.
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Fathertime Reputation: 383 See Fathertime's booth |
I know the company made hard plastic dolls in the ’50’s. They were most famous as dolls of the world. The dolls themselves are worth about ten bucks now.
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NancysNostalgicDolls Reputation: 219 See NancysNostalgicDolls' booth |
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