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I'm going to need to find a new place to display these soon!

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.

Absolutely WILD finds today, just can't be spending $40+ on clocks right now.

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?

🫣😉

Couldn't say no for $3!

So it came home

Since I lost them all starting this 🤑 hobby.

This place has had issues with vendors and things for a while now and a lot of people had pulled out recently so we haven't been checking this place very often.

Today trying to get the kids out of the house the wife asked the youngest what he wanted to do and he suggested this place because it has a glass floor on the third floor and they get a kick out of walking on it.

After already cruising part of this floor, my wife went to retrieve our children who were at a toy vendor booth. In my boredom I went back over the places we had just went, and much to my surprise there was a Boyd Aruba slag painted salt chick! (Which turned out was our very first piece of uranium glass and we didn't even know it!) It was fairly priced and we called the vendor and he gave me a $5 discount so it came home with us.

Also stumbled upon our second set of Amber uraniam stemware! (I bought a pair this time after learning my lesson last time!)

Sunset through a supercell!!

This was my first ever chasing trip with a former colleague who's been chasing for over a decade. We can claim we saw the beginning of the Edson tornado, but never really saw a good funnel.

He didn't understand why I pulled off the shoulder on I70 so quickly lol.

This was a $2 "Jar of old tacks".

Ended up with 32 UG stones!

For 5.50 I picked it up for science.

My take is UG with cadmium?

Any ideas who made the stemware? They're stunning!

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