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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: classinaglass on March 18, 2012, 01:41:10 AM

Title: ruby gold glass
Post by: classinaglass on March 18, 2012, 01:41:10 AM

what is definate ruby gold glass,as i have a piece with different sized tiny gold nuggets partly incased in the glass & fully incased in glass,plus distictive ash /charcoal,bracken,[how it was done]i have seen other ruby gold but without the gold bits,i no after 1813? they stopped using gold cholride & started using copper chloride because of costs,isnt it supposed to be the glass of all glass because of the gold content that isnt added to an other glass,,,.?

Title: Re: ruby gold glass
Post by: Ivo on March 18, 2012, 07:35:29 AM

Please search this board for information on aventurine as what you describe has nothing to do with ruby gold. Ruby gold is a shade of pink. Selenium red is red. And copper red is dark red - all of these are colours, not inclusions. Visible glitter is either gold foil, silver foil, mica or aventurine glass.
Feel free to post a photograph which would take the guesswork out of id-ing yours.