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Title: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Tina on July 10, 2009, 02:34:55 PM: Hello,

Is anyone able to identify this glass duck please. It stands 4 inches tall and I think it likely dates back to the 60s

Thanks,

Tina
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 10, 2009, 10:28:04 PM: Don't know who, but I suspect the amethyst glass is neodymium glass. If so it should appear blue under a fluorescent light. www.mindspring.com/~reyne/neowhatsis.html
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Tina on July 11, 2009, 09:31:54 AM: Reading that article was so interesting! Thank you

Do you mean the kind of light that photographs Uranium glass? I've often wondered where I might buy such a light?

Tina
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: johnphilip on July 11, 2009, 10:09:15 AM: You can get them in Maplins the electrical store .jp
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 11, 2009, 10:11:20 AM: You need an ultra-violet light for making Uranium glass glow bright green, Tina.
I used to have a wee thing that attached to a key-ring. It was pretty cheap, and enough for my purposes. Try searching "UV light" on that internet auction site.
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: johnphilip on July 11, 2009, 10:13:45 AM: I would say Italian in the style of Barbini or Seguso .imho . jp
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Tina on July 11, 2009, 11:08:16 AM: Thank you kindly folks!

I bought a cheap pen like one online, it held together by a prayer and didn't work, or didn't seem to.

I'll try Maplins. Forgive my ignorance but what's imho ?
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: TxSilver on July 11, 2009, 11:46:49 AM: Neodymium glass is also known as alexandrite. It is lavender under incandescent light and blue under flourescent. These are your normal house lights -- bulbs vs tube lights. Uranium glass is the one that glows under black light. Other minerals in glass can glow under black light, too. It is a handy thing to have, but not needed for neodymium.

I don't know who did your duck. It is Murano style, but I don't recognize the form of the bill. Sorry.
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 11, 2009, 01:03:46 PM: As Anita says, with your duck you just need to try him under different light bulbs in the house. Low energies, halogens and tubes, he should look bluish, even bluish green. Under the old fashioned sort with a filament, the ones they are phasing out, and daylight he should look purple.

If your UV light didn't work and yet came on, then what ever you were testing didn't contain any uranium. You also find UV lights in kid's secret writing sets, security marking kits and in Halfords in oil testing kits for mechanics.
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Anne on July 11, 2009, 01:30:59 PM: Quote from: Tina on July 11, 2009, 11:08:16 AM
Forgive my ignorance but what's imho ?

Tina, it's short for in my humble opinion, you could also have imnsho which would be in my not so humble opinion! ;D
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: rosieposie on August 30, 2011, 01:13:10 PM: Hi Tina....have you still got this duck?
If so, please could we see some more pictures of it?
The base, a front view and a close up of the feet wold be very helpful, thank you.
Rosie.
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: Tina on August 31, 2011, 12:02:18 PM: No, sorry but I no longer have it.
Title: Re: ID sought for Amethyst cased Cranberry Glass Duck Paperweight
Post by: johnphilip on August 31, 2011, 12:25:24 PM: I got to examine one the same at a fair a couple of months ago it was quite old 50/60s and good quality , i wonder if it was that one .