Topic: Unknown (uranium?) jadite bowl. Any help please.

[Sendhandfran]

Hi Paul, thanks for the info, interesting about 19th cent glass being brighter. I've been interested in uranium in glass & ceramics since first discovering it was used about a year now. I have a little one led torch on my key ring and a bigger one at home. I know exactly what you mean by glowing in sunshine. One lemon green color hock glass i have glows just as green in sunlight as with the torch! It looks fab  And a Victorian vase with uranium snake i have glows the brightest with the torch from way across the room!

[Sendhandfran]

Hi Lustrestone, i just found the bowl in your link, looks like the same one to me, its even on a plinth, lol. This was sold with the plinth, I'd assumed they weren't really connected.
Keith, looks like you were right 'Davidson' 
I'd been through loads of jadeite but not come across it.
Thank you both so much 

[Sendhandfran]

Lustresstone, the link to the brass pump on ebay, you say isn't uranium? They say it glows brightly under UV, it would've fooled me (but I've been fooled in the past, sworn something was green depression glass uranium only to get it home and have no reaction to the torch ) if the pumps not uranium glass I'm now wondering if some of what I've got, that i think is uranium, but may not be.

[Sendhandfran]

If this is Davidson 732f i see it would've had a flower frog. The most annoying thing is i used to have that same flower frog! How annoying, i sold it

[Lustrousstone]

I've kind of assumed your MacBet-Evans piece is uranium because mine is
http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=1432

That spray just isn't glowing enough and not the right shade of green.

I'm sure I have pieces that may or may not be uranium too but they tend to be pieces with iridescence or opacity. It can be very difficult to tell.

[Sendhandfran]

Oh thats a beautiful piece Lustresstone . I'd not seen it before.
I'll see if i can post the bowl i have, it was my first piece of glass & what started this love affair. I had no idea at the time it could be uranium, at that time I'd only seen the depression green stuff.
Agree its very difficult to tell, even now i know what I'm looking for i make mistakes.