This is a nearly 4 day spectrum on glass subject suspected to contain uranium.
Is this sufficient enough for a positive ID, or do I need some shielding to get better results?
Radiacode 102
First few came home for 32 bucks, the rest were eye candy.
Are these buttons or beads?
Thoughts on the cranberry piece?
Spent WAYYY too much but couldn't walk away from these GORGEOUS Jefferson hand painted jadeite lamps, nor the Aladdin for the prices. 😫😫
Also bonus local souvenir cup for $10!
Finding things that overpriced UG flippers miss
Local antique place had a special late night sale. Checkout line was ~50 minutes but got a couple cool pieces. Finally got my first watches!
I don't know how manganese could glow this brightly, so this feels like it has to be UG. Just ordered the Radiacode to finally be able to do spectral analysis. Isn't really registering on the GMC 300 but the eyes win here.
Noticing more and more of these lately. Facing after the light/rear.
My wife was really on today! The shakers were only $8 and got the pair of vases for $36! Also got our first mason jar lid too!
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The rest were just cool finds we left.
Was without a price tag in the back of a cabinet with a bunch of African art. Luckily the shop was able to get a hold of the vendor right before closing on Sunday and they priced it had $10 on the spot.
If you're gonna twist my arm!
These just showed up recently in my town. Are they Flock or similar?
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Ok, so it's taken me a while to prep for this post because I HOPE it's going to generate some positive, thoughtful discussion.
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There's a whole backstory about the chimney when I first started collecting (it was my Moby Dick for a while!), but for this post I'll focus on the lamp.
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Quick setting, for our anniversary my wife and I decided to spend our Monday doing a larger than usual antique store loop through areas we don't get to visit often. We made an initial plan, but Monday morning we realized there weren't as many stores open on our route so I came up with an alternate route that still took us to the area we were having dinner.
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We picked up several pieces along the way, including a pair of mini dolphin candlestick holders for $25 and some other nice things. At the LAST store we stopped at (which we weren't even sure it was a store it was so cluttered lol) there was this plane-jane looking lamp with a "Lantern Clear" label on it sitting there in the middle of a room on a table amongst several other things. I LITERALLY gasped when my light hit it, then spent a few moments debating manganese vs uranium before making up my mind that for $20 it was worth the risk to bring it home for more studying. Once in the darkness of the van floorboard I didn't need anymore convincing, the color alone told me this was a uranium glass lamp.
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Let me preface the rest of this with, YES there is a "tint" to this glass reminiscent of a coke-bottle color therefore I will concede this is not a truly "clear" piece of uranium glass. (I still withhold that truly "clear" UG exists, folks just can't agree what "clear" means)
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That said...why is there uranium in this "clear" glass lamp at all? Even moreso the chimney? If the sole purpose of adding uranium to glass was to make it green? It seems unlikely to me they were adding it to get the "coke-bottle look" when that's what glass normally looks like and why manganese is used to "clarify" glass to my understanding.
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Geiger Results:
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I used the Average CPM mode on my GMC-300S with ~5 minute averages. I repeated each test 3 times on each piece, with a ~5 minute background between each "test".
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Lamp:
BG_1: ~15.92 CPM
Lamp_1: 25.1 CPM
BG_2: 19.09 CPM
Lamp_2: 27.25 CPM
BG_3: 17.17 CPM
Lamp_3: 28.46 CPM
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AVG BG: ~17.4 CPM
AVG Lamp: ~26.9 CPM
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Chimney:
BG_1: 18.57 CPM
Chimney_1: 27.24 CPM
BG_2: 14.75 CPM
Chimney_2: 27.42 CPM
BG_3: 17.62
Chimney_3: 28.13 CPM
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AVG BG: ~16.98 CPM
AVG Chimney: ~27.59 CPM
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Also pictured in glowing pics:
Right: LG Wright? UG Swan
Left: Fenton Manganese Water Nymph
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Recently found a bottom to my top!
Will it glow?
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Since I lost them all starting this 🤑 hobby.