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- Description
- The Plax Corporation was organized in 1937, with the aim of producing small polyethylene items. This half-cavity spherical steel mold for spherical Christmas tree ornaments, which dates from 1941, is from that project.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Mold, for Christmas Tree Ornament
- mold
- Mold
- Date made
- 1941
- maker
- Plax Corporation
- Associated Place
- United States: New Jersey
- Measurements
- overall: 115 mm x 133 mm x 82 mm; 4 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in
- ball cavity: 63 mm; x 2 1/2 in
- overall: 4 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 11/32 in; 11.43 cm x 13.335 cm x 8.509 cm
- ID Number
- 1983.0538.01
- catalog number
- 1983.0538.01
- accession number
- 1983.0538
- Credit Line
- Gift of J. Harry DuBois
- subject
- Christmas
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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