galalith

In particular, galalith was well known for use in buttons.

There is a collection of brass / galalith jewelry associated with his films.

Although Galalith was historically cheap, the fact it could not be moulded led to its demise by commercial end users.

The pieces, catalogued 1924-1939, combined brass and chrome with geometric shapes of colored galalith.

Then there are pins shaped like turtles,s ome ingold,, others ina plastic called Galalith, which looks like tortoise shell.

In 1893, French chemist Auguste Trillat discovered the means to insolubilize casein by immersion in formaldehyde, producing material marketed as galalith.

By the 1930s, Galalith was also used for pens, umbrella handles, white piano keys (replacing natural ivory), and electrical goods, with world production at that time reaching 10,000 tons.

In France, Galalith was distributed by the Compagnie Française de Galalithe located near Paris in Levallois-Perret.

Marketed in the form of boards, pipes and rods, in 1913 thirty million litres (eight million US gallons) of milk were used to produce Galalith in Germany alone.

Shurtleff and Aoyagi comment that their 1912 patent was "packed with original ideas, including various French-style cheeses and the world's first industrial soy protein isolate, called Sojalithe, after its counterpart, Galalith, made from milk protein."