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Val St Lambert - Just for show...
Anne Tique:
Hello everybody,
I was hoping if anybody could tell me something about this type of glass, that I know of but am unfamiliar with.
I did not know VSL did neodymium glass, just for fun I tried under uv light to see what happens and the thing lits up but all violet. This vase dates from the period 1951-1958 and it shows blue on the image, but as I'm standing next to it, the colour is fluorescent pink. On the image in the dark, you can see some pink on the left, while actually the whole vase has this colour but for some reason does not come through on the photo. Is it normal for this type of glass to react like that under uv light?
Lustrousstone:
Nice one. Neodymium glass should look different colours in fluorescent and incandescent light. I don't know what that UV effect is but lead crystal often looks bluish under UV
Anne Tique:
Thanks for that Christine, I did not know.
Next to a lamp it gets an aqua marine like colour. Again, doesn't show well but the colour is throughout the piece.
Lustrousstone:
;D
Anne Tique:
I finally managed to get the colour that I mentioned before on an image, just with a proper camera. I haven't worked on the image or touched it up, tis is what I get with UV light. I've got a total of 8 different colours with this piece, depending on the type of light. This pink shows up with UV, and other colours vary between mauve, violet, blue, blue-grey and dark grey with daylight, ceiling light, a torch shining inside it shows bright blue, camera flash and it goes grey, sideboard lamp shows agua-marine/turquoise … and it goes on and on...very entertaining but it's wearing me out.
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