Types of Fordite

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"Detroit", V.I.- Type 1, Great Britain, V.I.- Type 2, Great Britain, V.I.- Type 3

Fordite Type Classifications:

V.I.- Vintage Incidental- (Created Incidentally in Auto Factories)

Identified:
Type 1: Separated Colors- Regular grey banding of primer layers between color layers.
Type 2: Color on Color- Opaques and metallics. Limited colors. Small parts collection.
Type 3: Color on Color- Drippy, with multiple colors and layers.. Psychedelic lace and orbital patterns, with occasional surface channeling.
Type 4: Color on Color- Opaques and metallics, with bleeding, thin color layers, sometimes containing pitted layers.

Presented For Purchase:

Great Britain Fordite- (Our Personal Favorite)

This material is currently our company's main focus because of it's superior beauty, and versatility. The "rough" was collected from an England auto factory in the late 1970's. It is very colorful, exhibiting many alternating opaque, semi-translucent, and metallic layers, and displaying two distinct types in its class. This variety is identified by several characteristic features: Color on color layering, many opaque and metallic layers, palatte variety, and several pattern types. This particular plant produced a Type 2 Fordite, which has thicker, more uniform layers of repeated colors, and a Type 3, which has numerous metallics, and pooling bands or drip patterns which contain many alternating, vibrant colors. Type 3 also frequently displays areas of beautiful recessed channeling on its surface, which typically follow the pooling face patterns. If this feature doesn't affect the structural integrity of the piece, it is considered an aesthetic attribute. Sometimes I am excited to come across a deeply channeled piece that nearly resembles a natural drusy vug...

"Detroit" Fordite

Our "Detroit" variety is known to be American in origin, but is not confirmed to have specifically originated in Detroit, so it's just a nickname. This material is nicely colorful, and contains opaque, semi-translucent and metallic layers. It differs from the popular Great Britain variety and others, in that it has several unique markers as to its identity. This particular "Detroit" variety is a Type 1 Fordite, and is defined by well articulated grey primer layers between most every color layer, rather than color on color layers. This variety is also known to frequently contain a thick, metallic layer running through it which is quite attractive, and reminiscent of an aged, burnished silver. These features give it a markedly different appearance from other Type 1 varieties, and make it easily distinguishable from them.

Ohio Fordite (Van Fordite)

This material was collected at an Ohio auto plant in the 1980's. It is a Type 1 Fordite, exhibiting primer layers between colors, and is subtle and earthy in tones, due to it's many thin layers of grays and greens. At the time of this rough's collection, this plant was working primarily on a line of vans, so it is likely that the colors displayed therein would be indicative of that particular model auto of that time.

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