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Title: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: kitty-kat1234 on August 01, 2011, 01:36:13 AM

 :hi:
I have had this for quite awhile,picked it up because it was a cheap oppie find & i thought it may turn out to be something.
The other night i was playing around with a black light going over some pieces & this vase showed a fab glow.

It turned quite orange to the base,lighter up top & then around the lip/rim it showed red & orange all the way around quite strongly & in flat not see through (if you follow me)

In the daylight this vase is more of a yellow,the photo's were taken at night & it completly changes.
It looked lovely,sadly i could not take a bigger pic because i only have a sml UV light that fits on my key ring,handy though when out & about.

Why has it come up this way & is the vase anything special  :X:

cheers kat

(http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/kerry-ann_03/collectables035.jpg)
(http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/kerry-ann_03/collectables036.jpg)
(http://i639.photobucket.com/albums/uu120/kerry-ann_03/collectables034.jpg)

Title: Re: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: Anne on August 01, 2011, 02:14:15 AM

Cadmium possibly? http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,21182.0.html

Title: Re: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: kitty-kat1234 on August 01, 2011, 02:24:07 AM

Thanks for that Anne,what a very interesting thread  :hiclp:

Title: Re: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 01, 2011, 08:40:42 AM

Very common in yellow/orange early to mid(ish) 20th century glass. Not used so much any more as a colorant because of its toxicity, although when trapped in glass it's not going to get out that easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_poisoning

This is really scary for me http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4507036.stm, because I lived here then and my Dad who was born and died there is one of the oesophageal cancer statistics.

Title: Re: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: kitty-kat1234 on August 01, 2011, 09:24:59 AM

Lustrousstone,i'm sorry,thank-you for sharing!
Some things are not fair or right.

This UV light i have is so small i really need to get a better one.
I could not sleep & was running around the house shining it everywhere,was having so much fun because off all the diferent things happening.
Yep like a kid in a candy store :smg:

Has anyone any info about the glass itself & not all the dangerous goodies in it.
I have marked all the links so i can go back & read again,thank-you again for them.

Title: Re: Very Strange Glow,Yellow Textured comes up with Orange/Red Lip?
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 01, 2011, 10:20:29 AM

Can we have pictures against a white background. The black makes it difficult to see what is going on (in focus would be good too  ;) ).