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Breaking News Nailsea / Bristol hat found in charity shop in Bristol for £1.50
KevinH:
Good photos!
Now the GMB has probably a better range of images of "true Nailsea glass" than in most of the books I have seen so far.
Baked_Beans:
Ta Kevin,
I was pleased that the photos were in focus , I thought the glass cabinet would mess up the auto focus on the camera.
Here is another one I took...see page 59 , plate 55 of Keith Vincent's book. Its interesting to read the card on window glass where it states that by the 1850's (at least) some domestic wares were being made on a commercial basis.
flying free:
Great pics ! thank you :)
so my knitting needles aren't 12"in length, but I have another question - did Nailsea use uranium in their glass?
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Baked_Beans:
In Keith Vincent's book he describes Nailsea Crown and sheet window glass as being 'soda-lime' glasses. "the standard 'sodium sulphate' mixture was composed of sixteen parts sand, six parts dry sodium sulphate five parts of hydrate of lime, twelve parts of cullet and small amounts of charcoal, arsenic and manganese. There was also a carbonate mixture of slightly different composition " I think it was impurities in the sand which caused the green tinge. There is no mention of uranium , this book is all I have to go on here :)
Do your knitting needles glow ? under uv 8)
flying free:
no, but today I bought this which does :D (it was a lot more than £1.50 though) absolutely beautiful feathering, but a small bruise right at the bottom on one side.
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