# Could this be bakelite?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 18, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486 "2016-01-18T09:54:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486/21 "2016-01-19T12:00:18Z")

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Right! Closure - have heard back from the Museum of Design in Plastics. They are reasonably certain that the cocktail shaker is made of urea formaldehyde.

'It is very similar to this [Cream and green coloured dressing table pot | Museum of Design in Plastics](http://www.modip.ac.uk/artefact/phsl-156) which we hold in our collection. If you are interested to know a little more, this link describes the essentials of this material: [http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/curators\_guide/A-Z\_plastics#U-Z](http://www.modip.ac.uk/resources/curators_guide/A-Z_plastics#U-Z).

There you go. Case closed! Thanks all.

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486/22 "2016-01-19T14:29:18Z")

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Cool! Thanks for the follow up.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486/23 "2016-01-19T15:17:54Z")

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“Smell: usually none but occasionally a faint smell of urine” 🙂

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**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486/24 "2016-01-19T15:28:18Z")

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Cool! Learned something new.

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**Author:** ![FluffyBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@FluffyBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FluffyBob)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-this-be-bakelite/743486/25 "2016-01-19T15:30:09Z")

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I want one of those shakers now.

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