Herters Celluloid Enamel, What Was It Used For?

[troutbert]

Digging through my "stuff", I found some old bottles of Herters Celluloid Enamel, in several colors.

What was this used for?

 

[geebee]

i don't know what you used it for but as a kid i used it to paint the uniforms on tin and plastic soldiers - i think its waterproof paint, used on lures, floats etc.

it was half the price of Humbrols model paint for about twice as much.

 

[RLeeP]

That's a new one on me even though from the time I was about 8 until I was 17 or so, I spent several hundred hours a year with my nose in a Herter's catalog...


I found this:

"Herter's used to sell paints, for painting fishing lures and duck decoys, that used nitrocellulose dissolved in ketone as a polymer base. "Celluloid Enamel" I used to have a collection of colors of those paints."

here: http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f28/powder-ring-barrel-128890/index2.html

Makes as much sense as anything else, I guess..

 

[nfrechet]

colud you post a photo for reference?

from what i've read in one of herters books it was applied to the back of nymph fly patterns

 

[Tack-L-Tyer]

I think it was used for Ed Hewitt’s hardback nymph patterns illustrated in Bergman’s “Trout”.