Topic: Vaseline Green Champagne Flutes

[Bela]

Hi folks,

Can anybody ID the manufacturer and date on the champagne flutes?
Possibly a guestimation on value???

https://www.flickr.com/photos/96731121@N04/18020756648/in/dateposted-public/

Thanks in advance

[Lustrousstone]

Can we have a clearer shot of just one please. Do they have pontil marks? How is the rim finished? Are they really uranium glass, i.e., do they fluoresce bright green under a UV light?

[KevinH]

Hi Bela, welcome to the Board,

I have set your flickr link (for the larger image) to display correctly and have removed your duplicate post. To add additional info to your thread, just "Reply" to your own threads.

Image links to hosting sites unfortunately tend to get "broken" after a while. So, if you could add a separate image for just one flute, using the "Attach" feature, then the photo will remain in the Board for future reference.

[Bela]

Well. I finally got a uv light and they don't glow. 

No pontil marks.

They "sweat" an oily substance.
It looks like the the bowl and stem have been molded and then attached to the foot.

Edit; If they're not uranium glass, then what?

[Ivo]

The sticky surface and (probably) acid smell and vinegary taste means they have been kept in a moist atmosphere for a long time. Keeping them wrapped in paper in an attic would suffice to reach this fist stage of glass sickness.  Clean them, dry them and the problem should be cleared. At leastfor a while.

Having a set of six means they were probably never used.  The age is difficult to say, the same process of adding a foot to the stem is still used today.