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New discovery: Monart uranium glass
Lustrousstone:
That I would expect but the base colour is yellow. Kev is talking green. This has uranium in two canes but pale yellow I think, it's very difficult to tell (the green bit isn't uranium in those two canes) http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1832
KevinH:
Hmm, yes ... or no .. ???
The cane centres in weights (all two of them) that I have seen were an obvious transluscent bright yellow-green and they reacted quite strongly to longwave UV (again with a bright yellow-green colour). In Gary's bowl, I see the colour of the main parts as "translucent yellow-green", hence my comments.
nigel benson:
Hi,
It seems to me that the IG bowl is a difficult thing to photograph to show the green uranium that I suspect is the base colour. I think it's being masked by the ochre and bubbling as well as the slabs of yellow and orange/red enamel decoration.
Oh, try clicking on the third image down here: http://www.20thcentury-glass.org.uk/
Check the green glow to the lower right of the image.
Nigel
Lustrousstone:
The Monart green uranium I have seen was definitely green - that looks like what I call pure uranium and much more yellow than green, especially when out of daylight
nigel benson:
OK, I was just trying to help (having handled the piece) - which is great to photo as an item, but not to show what we're discussing here.
Nigel
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