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cagney:
  Photos are selected entries from Geo. W. Leightons copy of William Leightons batch book with other notations. Available online from the Rakow Library at CMOG. Creative Commons, no copyright.
Seems to use topaz and canary as similar if not the same. Victoria maybe a little more green, all use approximately the same amount of uranium. A handful or more other recipes using uranium listed as well.

Ekimp:
Thanks for posting this. I wonder which uranium compound they used.

flying free:
Thanks Cagney.

Am I reading you correctly that it could be the terms canary and topaz were interchangeable?  Therefore, if so, it could be that in certain descriptions/instances the use of the word topaz may not denote a particular colour of uranium glass but might simply be a term for uranium glass?
or it could mean that topaz and canary (in certain descriptions ) denote the same colour of uranium glass?

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cagney:
  You are exactly where I am at. I have questions. George W Leighton sure seems to use the two terms interchangeably. Trying to find a second source to either discount or account for this topaz terminology. A bit obsessed to know if the English terminology is the same as the bohemian. No luck , need help. I seem to recall that Bohemian topaz had a certain gold matrix added . Am I correct in my recollection?
 

flying free:
eeuggh - my laptop has crashed and I'm currently on a broken 15 year old one, so limited in what I can do hence being so quiet.

Also festivities planning getting in the way of doing lovely glass stuff.  I will remember your question and go and have another look at the books (especially Farbenglas volumes) as soon as I get some time in the next week or so. It might throw some light on the conundrum.

I have big question marks over:
a) the Queen Victoria uranium glass bowl allegedly being produced in England  ??? for her coronation banquet at Guildhall in 1837
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O2170/finger-bowl-davenport-co/finger-bowl-davenport--co/

b) And also over exactly how successful the uranium glass recipe was (Scotland maker - can't  remember name now) although recent research has shown the maker saying 'successful' with his recipe. That was c. 1840 though so after the  Queen Vic banquet bowls in any event.

As I always say, I may be wrong, but something not right about those bowls being produced a) at Davenport and b) in 1837 anywhere in England or Scotland. It's vexatious.

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