Show DECORATION OF CELLULOID How Poker Chips Combs and Other Articles Can Be Ornamented in Color Articles of celluloid cnn can be he decorated dec orated by using colored solutions of or c celluloid dissolved 11 In glacial acetic acid or arn l acetate If the article to be he decorated Is white ivory the celluloid used for the solution should be dissolved in amyl acetate which Is another name for the so called banana oil To prepare the article three parts of para paraffin in and one part of white wax are aie melted at a low temperature and either painted or flowed over the surface to he be worked upon The dehm desIgn design de de- de- de sign hm is then transferred to the wax mating coating t Ills Jils Is done by making the design ln on tracing paper per and transferring trans tren- ferring It to the wax by following the outline with the point of ot a pencil or st stylus lus leaving the de design Indented In IntIle Inthe inthe the tIle wax vax After Atter removing the transfer the wax Is scraped from the parts tobe to tobe be he colored with a sharp-pointed sharp instrument Instrument instrument In in- strument broad spaces being freed of at wax with Will a fl sharp penknife If several sev se oral eral colors or shades are to be used only the lines for one color are cut and that color applied these lines JInes are then covered over with wax before the next color to he used Is applied To prepare the colors small cuttings of colored celluloid are aie dissolved In either of the mentioned above chemIcals chemicals chem chern- using u small wide-mouthed wide bot bot- ties If colored celluloid Is not ob- ob aniline dyes dissolved In al alcohol al al- cohol cobol can be he added After the work has been heen completed the thc wax fiX can he easily removed from t the e article by rubbing with a soft ra raan rag and an gasoline nertha n Bertha G. G Morey Ottumwa Ottumwa Ot- Ot la Ta In Popular Mechanics l |