Topic: Kralik Floriform Vase

[NevB]

These are usually called vases but I think they are more just for decoration, the date is from around 1890-1910. It is quite large at 14cm. tall and 15cm. at it's longest. Oddly, the green glass stem isn't uranium but the clear glass leaves are.

[chopin-liszt]

  These are called Audreys. After The Little Shop of Horrors.
This was decided very early on in the days of the message board and is sadly, not actually official. 

[NevB]

Thanks Sue, no wonder I couldn't find any posts about them. I think I prefer floriform, very Shakespearean 

[Lustrousstone]

That's a manganese glow, not a uranium one. It could also be Aarhus rather than Kralik

[NevB]

Christine, after some checking I agree it could be by Kralik or Aarhus, either way I don't mind. I still think the leaves contain uranium, the camera tends to blur the image from what is visible to the naked eye. Here's a better photo which shows the clarity, consistency and intensity of the glow.

[Lustrousstone]

Definitely not a bright enough or all over enough glow and the leaves are colourless. The green would have probably have been uranium if it was being used at all

[NevB]

I will have to disagree.

[chopin-liszt]

I'm with Christine.
How far away from the floriform can you take the uv source and it still glows?
If it's about 10 feet away and it is uranium it will still glow. Manganese decolourant won't.

[NevB]

Yes Sue it glows from 10ft. away, albeit faintly, this Victorian beer glass gives a good indication of Manganese glow.

[chopin-liszt]

  I'm quite familiar with the manganese glow, and the glow you get from ancient dust, but a manganese glow is exactly what I see in your floriform, I'm afraid.