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Plastic tabletop radio collectors favor eye candy over ear candy
NEW YORK — Plastic is omnipresent today, but during the Machine Age, which spanned the years 1915 to 1940, it was just coming into its own as a valuable yet affordable material. Chemist Leo Baekeland, who invented Bakelite in 1907, and the American Catalin Corporation, which developed the similar thermosetting resin-based polymer it named Catalin […]
LEGO built its empire one plastic brick at a time
NEW YORK — LEGOs are one of a handful of toys still being made today that are lovingly passed from generation to generation. Although we have fully arrived in the digital age, where children are forever hunched over screens and mobile devices, it’s refreshing to see that a simple building toy based on plastic, snap-together […]
Art world meets plastic surgery in novel by Frank Strausser
NEW YORK – The debut novel Plastic by playwright/author Frank Stausser, who gained much acclaim during the successful three-month run of his stage comedy Physcho Therapy at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City, brings together various high-level players in the art world with the high-profile Beverly Hills plastic surgery culture in this edgy tale of psychological suspense […]
Alfred Dunhill ‘aquarium’ lighter mini-collection sparks interest at Capsule May 2
NEW YORK – Half a dozen Alfred Dunhill ‘aquarium’ lighters will be offered at Capsule Auctions on Thursday, May 2. The six lighters, decorated with a variety of underwater subjects, come from an Upper East Side collection with estimates between $1,500 and $3,000 each. It’s not difficult to see how these uber-collectable lighters made between […]
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