Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear

Made:: 1950 in England and Leicester

maker:: Cascelloid Limited

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Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear, blow moulded in polythene, 2nd British blow bottle, by Cascelloid Limited (BXL Cascelloid Division), Leicester, England, 1950

Vinolia "Baby Powder" Bear, blow moulded in polythene, 2nd British blow bottle, 1950, Cascelloid. Talcum powder container made by BXL Cascelloid Division of blow moulded Cascelloid (polythene). This was the second blow-moulded bottle to be produced in Britain. After WW2 various ways of shaping plastics were quickly explored and exploited. New opportunities for brand marketing through packaging arose with the technology to blow mould polythene bottles.

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Category:: Plastics and Modern Materials

Object Number:: 1985-1569

Materials:: polyethylene (polythene)

type:: container - receptacle and powder

credit:: BP Amoco; BXL Cascelloid Division

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Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear, 1950.

Vinolia 'Baby Powder' bear, blow moulded in polythene, 2nd British blow bottle, by Cascelloid Limited (BXL Cascelloid Division), Leicester, England, 1950