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Title: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: Scott13 on November 01, 2019, 05:34:04 PM

  Hi,
  Any info re this vase very welcome.

It’s about 24cm ( 9.5”) high.
Has a fair amount of base wear.
It’s got a push-up base/pontil mark.
The rim has been cut and fire polished.
Only the pedestal part appears to be uranium.

  Many thanks for looking  :)

   Scott

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: keith on November 01, 2019, 05:41:01 PM

I'd go with Bohemian just because of the rim finish  ;D

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: Scott13 on November 01, 2019, 05:56:33 PM

  Hi,
Thanks Keith - any idea how old it might be?

Scott

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: Scott13 on November 01, 2019, 07:22:51 PM

  Hi Keith,
Done a bit of digging—because of its uranium content i reckon it was probably made sometime between the 1880s and 1930s.
Waiting to be shot down in flames........... ;D

Scott

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: keith on November 02, 2019, 12:02:07 AM

I'd have gone for around 1900 so not far off  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: Scott13 on November 02, 2019, 08:33:04 AM

  Thanks for your reply, 1900 sounds good to me  ;D
  Looked at a lot of Bohemian glass and I can see now why you used its rim as an identifying feature........
 
  Scott
 

Title: Re: Uranium pedestal vase, Bohemian, British or other?
Post by: keith on November 02, 2019, 01:18:33 PM

Usually the case, but certainly not always  ::) ;D ;D