Uranium Glass

[AKguy1985]

Thank you! I have bought a few more pieces off eBay in the past couple days.

 

[AKguy1985]

New stuff from eBay. I'm going to have ashtrays out the wazoo. Four ashtrays, a paperweight, a light switch cover and a little frog.

 

[Perplexed]

Scorpions also glow under UV light - that’s how scorpion researchers find them in the wild at night:

 

[rjbrooks7]

Might as well show us the rest of the collection now...
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Everything is better with a blacklight...except maybe false teeth
Cool collection of glass!

Hourly rate motel rooms ARE NOT better with blacklight…

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I had met a gentleman in Tutle who collected Vaseline glass, he had thousands of pieces. His flowerbeds had chunks of vaseline glass instead of rocks or wood chips. I saw his collection and got to survey it with a geiger counter. Most of the pieces measured 2 to 3 times background count with a geiger counter, he had a few that measured 400 cpm (30 times background.) His whole house measured around 2 times background from the shear quantity of vaseline glass. It is not a hazardous amount of radiation. Most uranium glass is primarily a beta particle emitter and easily detected. I got into the collecting mode as well. I found a bowl at a garage sale that does not fluoresce but measures 5 X background. I suspect it has thorium in it to give it a gold color, but lacking gamma ray spectroscopy equipment I have no way of knowing for sure.

Most vaseline glass is a yellowish color that fluoresces electric green, however depending on how it is fired it can be blue or pink as well. If you really get into the hobby a cheap geiger counter ($100 on eBay or Amazon can help, as well as a cheap UV flashlight. Urban prospecting can be fun. Don't get me started on radium dialed watches and clocks...

 

[dlbleak]

@AKguy1985 , sent you a pm

 

[THAT Gurl]

My grandma had oodles of this stuff. It was really beautiful. Nice collection you have going there, @AKguy1985 ...


Eta: you know I hate autocorrect. My grandma has been gone for 30+ years now ... I think I know which tense I need to use.

 

[Firpo]

I’d like to see what it looks like NOT lit up. I’ve heard that the way to see if Depression Glass is real is to check it with a black light. Apparently it iridesces.

 

[mhphoto]

I’m some thing of a radioactive artifact collector myself. Here is a small part of my collection.



The shot of the detector is my third spiciest item from the collection—a wristwatch with radium dials.

The second spiciest object I have is a thorium ore sample that was “liberated“ from a spinthariscope. Don’t recall the μSv/h, but the CPM was about 212,000.

The spiciest thing in my collection is a group of large, loose watch dials that are absolutely COVERED in Undark radium and ready to wreck your friggin day if you get too close. I forget the μSv/h reading, but I remember the CPM was just shy of 260,000. Those get stored in a solid lead pig.

 

[TANSTAAFL]

I’m some thing of a radioactive artifact collector myself. Here is a small part of my collection.

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The shot of the detector is my third spiciest item from the collection—a wristwatch with radium dials.

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The second spiciest object I have is a thorium ore sample that was “liberated“ from a spinthariscope. Don’t recall the μSv/h, but the CPM was about 212,000.

The spiciest thing in my collection is a group of large, loose watch dials that are absolutely COVERED in Undark radium and ready to wreck your friggin day if you get too close. I forget the μSv/h reading, but I remember the CPM was just shy of 260,000. Those get stored in a solid lead pig.

Nice collection!

You know you've gone overboard when you get Sodium Iodide Scintillators, LErG scintillators and Pancake probes... You need the small gm counters when you go into thrift and antique stores else the staff looks at you funny...