Topic: Uranium Glass Identification? Whitefriars??

[Sussex_Oast]

No problem Paul!
Thank you too for the compliments! It is a lovely piece and I would really like to know if it is Whitefriars or not! I'll just have to wait and see if anyone has any info on it :X:

[johnphilip]

 :hi: It looks more like Webb to me IE the shape is not typical Powell also it looks a little thicker and heavier than most Powell (Whitefriars ) pieces , i would like to hear Nigels opinion as well .

[Sussex_Oast]

Thank you for your interest. I have looked through all my Webb photos and cannot find anything similar to this piece. Do you happen to know of any similar pieces or photographs of them?
cheers
Simon

[chopin-liszt]

Webb did a uranium glass, called "honey amber", which is a very dirty brown colour.
Until you get a ray of sunshine on it.  :sun: :sun: :sun:

[Lustrousstone]

Whitefriars straw opal is uranium, but this is not that. The straw opal pieces tend to much finer and more delicate as JP says. Many manufacturers made uranium glass like this with opalescent detail. I doubt that you will find a manufacturer.

Uranium glass comes in shades of yellow, shades of green, shades of blue, shades of cream, white, grey, pink and shades of brown/amber. If you count the various shades, then yes many, many colours.

Barrie Skelcher's books are a good place to start, though his attributions are not all correct. General glass books of the period/country you are interested in are good too because coloured glass was often made in several colours, including uranium containing ones.

[Sussex_Oast]

Thanks Christine!
I was hoping for a positive i.d. but I know it's a mine field!!! I'll check out the books you suggested, thanks!
I do have what I believe are Whitefriars Straw uranium dishes. Maybe I should post them up to see if they really are the real thing!
regards
Simon

[mrvaselineglass]

Webb did a uranium glass, called "honey amber", which is a very dirty brown colour.
Until you get a ray of sunshine on it.  :sun: :sun: :sun:

Just an FYI:  In the back of Hadjamach's book (BRITISH GLASS 1800-1914), there are formulas used to make glass by Webb.  There are 19 different formulas that use uranium oxide/dioxide as part of the formula, and any of those will glow. 

Mr. Vaseline Glass

[Paul S.]

yes thanks, and I knew Sue was having a little dig at me (but very nicely, because she is a nice girl, apparently ) - and you are referring, of course, to page 432 in said book.     I think that an equally interesting page is in another book, although it concerns the same manufacturer i.e. Webb (English).     If you look at Barrie Skelcher's  'The Big Book of Vaseline Glass' (Schiffer 2002) - page 119 - you will see that Table No. 2 is columned to give the estimated density and uranium concentrations in Webb's Nineteenth Century Mixes.    It would appear that in Hajdamach's book (not Hadjamach by the way), his list of formulae are for five finished colours only.    However, in Skecher the author actually names these 19 resulting colours, with such diverse hues as Carmine, Dark Casing Green, Rich Topaz and Lustrousstone's 'Lemonescent'.   I have to say, however, that I haven't a clue what 'Oriental' 'Cyrysoprase' or 'Tricolour' look like.     So, I will grudgingly accept that Sue was correct with many, many colours/hues  -  only joking Sue.   Perhaps Christine will now tell us what 'Orienta'l and 'Tricolour' look like.       Thanks for the email, at least it gets us looking at some of these more obscure matters.