The tray, the small plate and the jug represented in this photo are typical crockery produced in the 1930s by the English company Brookes & Adams. The production of these objects is closely linked to Beetle Products Co., which in 1925 managed to produce molding powders derived from the condensation liquid of thiourea with formaldehyde. These powders, the Beetle Molding Powder, were mixed with cellulose pulp and were used by various companies, including Brookes & Adams, for the production of tableware and household items known under the trade name Bandalasta. The Bandalasta brand items are characterized by a wide range of colors and marbled effects that the company was able to obtain by mixing dyes with molding powders. The compounds were used to produce complete sets of crockery, each of which, in fact, had the same numbering stamped on the base. In a commercial catalog of the late 1920s, Brookes & Adams presented its products as follows: “Bandalasta was made in a variety of beautiful marbled and translucent pastel shades. In the Marbled shades no two pieces were exactly alike, but all the pieces of the same color number were blended so that they could be built up in complete sets ". [Bandalasta products are made in a variety of beautiful translucent marbled and pastel shades. In marbled shades, no two pieces are exactly alike, but all pieces of the same color number are joined together so that they can form complete sets]. The presentation text emphasizes marbled effects and color varieties. The synthetic resins produced until then, the Bakelites, could in fact only be obtained in shades of brown and straw yellow. On the other hand, the Beetle molding powders, thanks to their semi-transparency, introduced, in the 1920s, the possibility of adding color to plastics, a quality that for these materials today appears so obvious to us, but which in those years did not it was by no means obvious.