Resin, Red Faturan, Assorted Shapes, Small Collector/Designer Set of 11 Beads,
SKU: ORR-271
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Description
- These beads are priced and sold as a set of 11 beads
- Small barrels, oblates, and a round make up this collection, largest 17x13mm
- Colors range from bright red to nearly black
- Faturan is brand name (like Bakelite) for a phenolic thermosetting resin, named for a Saudi chemist believed to have invented this variant.
- A factory in Hamburg, Germany produced the beads and exported them mostly to East Africa and the Middle East starting around 1910.
- All phenolic thermosetting resins oxidize, taking on a darker color with age. Faturan has the wonderful characteristic that it always turns red with oxidation, regardless of the original color. From this came the name "Cherry Amber" used for red amber beads in Turkey and other parts of the Middle East
- Production of Faturan and other resins made in Hamburg slowed in the 1940s due to wartime supply shortages, and ended when Hamburg was devastatingly firebombed by the Allies in July of 1943.