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10/09/2007 7:37 am  

I love lucite lamps and have been collecting them for 5 years, and now have 9 of the greatest looking ones all different, with different types of Lucite blocks.
2 are by Karl Springer The others have no names 1 is by Royal,
Does anyone have any idea when these lamps came on the scene? I have always heard late 60's but someone told me today they were popular prior to WW2 but i always thought that lucite was a product that was made after the war? inquiring minds want to know,


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koen
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10/09/2007 6:43 pm  

Lucite is the brand name ....
of polymethylmetracrylate, a highly transparent thermoplastic. The material is also known as Perspex, plexiglass,etc. depending on the manufacturer.
I will find back an exact date but I am sure it was around during the war because as children would gather broken pieces of Messerschmit cockpit windows, polish them after having rounded the corners, given them a teardrop shape and after drilling a hole to hang it we would offer it to either a sister or her many girl friends as a ....piece of jewelery...
But I will find out the right date


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azurechicken (USA)
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10/09/2007 9:22 pm  

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Late 1920s in Germany?...Plexiglas?


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LRF
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10/09/2007 10:37 pm  

LUCITE: Trademark of the...
LUCITE: Trademark of the E.I. DUPONT CO PLEXIGLAS: Trademark of the ROHM & HASS CO
Thanks guys I looked in one of my trade mark books and this is what i found ,
I have authored several articles in magazines and use to have a large collection of Bakelite so i knew all about resins...
I just did not know if Bakelite came before lucite/plexiglass or after.
Back to the lamps .. I do not remember them in the 50's but i do in the 60's and 70's and 80's. they took a rest in the 90's but are popular again . .


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11/09/2007 10:04 am  

Bakelite...
was by far (in plastic terms) the earlier. In fact Leo Bakeland a Belgian engineer that moved to the U.S. invented this very first resin, a thermo setting based on Phenolformaldehyde. The Thermoplastics came later


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