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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: pandelune on March 29, 2014, 12:31:39 PM
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I bought this thing on Etsy a few months ago.
The color of the glass is grass green, which seems unusual for a Murano. But the glass is not perfectly clear.
The shape is really bizarre.
It is not built in one piece: the pedestal seems weld.
A few medium bubbles. Some white lattice which seems of good quality. No complex canes (nor canes).
The pedestal sounds rather like cristal than glass - but I'm not sure of it.
It was described as a Murano. I have doubts, but I have no idea of what it could be.
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For what it's worth the green glass looks like uranium glass. Have you got a UV light to test it with?
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This would be funny indeed. I didn't know there were paperweights made of uranium glass.
I have no UV lamp but buying a small LED one is possible, they are cheap enough.
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This would be funny indeed. I didn't know there were paperweights made of uranium glass.
I have no UV lamp but buying a small LED one is possible, they are cheap enough.
You can get them at pet stores. They're sold as pee detectors.
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I think the photo is explicit enough: uranium glass indeed.
Any idea of how old it is, and when it has been made?
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Hi. The twists and latticino inside look very like those in Murano scrambles from the mid 20th century, so I would believe Murano as the origin.
Alan
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Thanks Alan.