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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => British & Irish Glass => Topic started by: keith on April 22, 2017, 01:28:49 PM
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9.5 cm tall, fully marked, sherry or port ? ::) excuse pic's, 'newish' camera.
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I do have a preference for port.
Do they glow under uv? That is the all-important question.
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Me thinks it glows ! ;D ;D
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Have you been at the sherry? ;)
That looks, from the photo, a little bit more like manganese rather than uranium.
But it could be that the uv light source isn't direct.
Lustrousstone has a Webb's Evergreen Bullseye footed bowl that is uranium, I thought they all were. ???
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What me drink ! ::) is this better ? ;D ;D
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Not really. I suspect manganese decolourant in a high density, not Uranium.
This glimmers rather than glows.
Try the 6 feet test.
If it glows when the light source is six feet away, it's uranium.
(Although I did have a Murano pink, blue and clear swan that still glimmered faintly from 6 feet.)
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Think you maybe right, tried the distance test next to a piece that really does glow ! ;D
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Now, we know that "Evergreen" isn't always Uranium.
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Sue imbibing ;) ;) I'd agree manganese.
Appreciate these were made in the U.K., but on the Continent isn't it usually white wine they usually drink from green glasses??