Topic: Carnival glass bowl with uranium !!!!!!! ID = Sowerby "Pineapple"

[dinklepip]

Acquired this today at my local car boot for £1  :hiclp:  After scouring the net I managed to identify it as the Pineapple pattern produced by Sowerby.  It has a high uranium content around the rim and also the base, not so much on the body.  I never never knew that carnival glass pieces had this content before, have learned something new today.  Is this quite common in carnival glass or might I have found a sought after piece?  

[dinklepip]

another pic

[dinklepip]

sorry having probs loading pics

[Lustrousstone]

It's not uncommon in some US carnival, but Glen describes this piece as scarce and unusual (Carnival Glass: The Magic and the Mystery). The uranium content will be the same throughout. The iridising shields the UV effect though.

[dinklepip]

oooooooo that's interesting, as I said, never come across a piece before that has a uranium content. 

[Glen]

Yes, Sowerby's vaseline Carnival (uranium) is very hard to find. Congratulations!

For a little more information on vaseline Carnival, you can read this (I wrote it some time ago but it still holds good, I think).

http://www.carnivalglass.org/newbies/10.asp

Glen

[antiquerose123]

oooooooo that's interesting, as I said, never come across a piece before that has a uranium content. 

Hi there dinklepip:

I had that same question that i had posted in the Cafe over a month ago.  I too never knew that either -- so you are not alone.  I too had seen somewhere on the Net about this --so I wondered why I had never heard of this either.
(In Cafe): http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34277.0.html

Good to know and  :thup: to you on your Find!!

[dinklepip]

ooooooo thank you Glen, always sooo much to learn

[dinklepip]

 :hiclp: :hiclp:

[dinklepip]

finally managed to upload this