Mold
date: label: Date made
content: 1941
name: label: maker
content: Plax Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Christmas
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Harry DuBois
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0538.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0538.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mold, for Christmas Tree Ornament
label: Object Name
content: mold
label: Object Name
content: Mold
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 115 mm x 133 mm x 82 mm; 4 1/2 in x 5 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: ball cavity: 63 mm; x 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: 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