2 Vintage Laguna Melmac Los Angeles, CA, Floral Geometry Saucers Plates,

No. 302

Set of 2

Approximately 6" round

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A brief reference on Melmac Dinnerware:

Plastic dinnerware was found in many homes from the 1940s through the 1970s and is highly collectible now. During the 1930s, the raw material "melamine" hit an all-time low price. With heightening wartime threats and impending monetary constraints, American industrialists jumped on the bandwagon to make melamine into functional products for both commercial and households.

Melamine, a thermoset plastic material, was used in many factories and was incorporated into dinnerware production by the late 1940s. American Cyanamid was one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of melamine powder to plastics molders. They name-branded their version "Melmac."

One of the benefits of molders purchasing from American Cyanamid was the advertising campaign for Melmac. Just look in any old Life magazines from the early 1950s and you will see how heavily Melmac the wonder plastic was marketed by American Cyanamid. There were other manufacturers who would offer melamine powders for molding (Allied Chemical and PMC Manufacturing to name a few). If a molder were to purchase from a non-Cyanamid distributor, they could not refer to their melamine dishes as "Melmac." This may be why some old ads for plastic dinnerware specifically say "Made of Melmac" while others just say Plaskon or melamine.

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