#cadmium glass

[dozydawn]

[lilibat]

Opera length necklace in Halloween colors made with vintage Czech and Swarovski, uranium glass, cadmium glass, jet, and purple velvet crystal.

[shadyufo]

Finally getting some decent rains here again so I took another quick stroll around the creek the other evening to see what washed up between floods. Found a ton more awesome fossils—bryzoans, brachiopods, and some nice crinoids—some neat bits of melted metal, and lots of pretty tumbled pottery and glass, including a pretty unique piece.

I always check glass I find under a black light to see if it is uranium glass which will glow bright yellow or green. I’ve found a few pieces over the years and it’s always exciting to find! I had a feeling that big yellow hunk of glass would glow but it didn’t glow the usual uranium glass color…

…it’s orange!

Turns out there are other kinds of vintage glassware that will glow under a black light—this is most likely cadmium glass but manganese glass and a few others will react to a black light as well. Pretty neat!

Here’s a piece of tumbled uranium glass next to it for comparison.

[uraniumglasspoisoning]

Couldn't find any uranium glass that I wanted to buy the other day but I did find this Fenton cadmium glass shoe 🧡❤️🧡 I love how it looks under the UV✨✨✨

[sami-lamby123]

I FINALLY BOUGHT SOME URANIUM GLASS PIECES

The orange and yellow glass is cadmium and the purple is selenium 🌞🕊

[swords-and-chaos]

I got a black light and found a

cadmium secret!

[whosayscrimedoesntpay]

((Time for another update!

Got these on Facebook marketplace and ebay!

This is way bigger than I expected, but I love it.

And cadmium glass! Some of them are clearly normal glass replacements but it's so fun?? And it pairs with the green one I have.))

[nail-bat-butch]

my dad’s girlfriend has a uranium glass dish that glows bright green if you shine an ultraviolet light on it. alas, i don’t have a picture of it, but it looks something like these plates. image description in alt text:

thankfully it hasn’t broken, so we’re fine. but i’m still cautious.

I was at the thrift store today and, as always, I ran my UV flashlight over the glassware to check for uranium glass. It's separated by color I usually only do some quick, broad waves over the reds/yellows/blues since uranium glass is usually clear, white, or green. I have found dyed uranium glass that was brown but fluoresced green and I thought that would probably be the rarest pieces in my collection for a while. Today I check a piece of reddish/yellow glass on total whim and:

IT'S CADMIUM GLASS!!! Like, uranium glass, it fluoresces under blacklight but it glows orange instead of green and is SUPER rare, even compared to the already rare uranium glass!

[shiftythrifting]

some.... eclectic finds from a goodwill in OR

1. there were more of these letter stocking hangers but someone had taken the opportunity to make them spell EEP (hats off to them for making it spell 'eep' instead of the more puerile 'pee')

2. very cute corn teapot i would have bought had it not been very small (probably could fit 1 normal cup or 2 tiny cups' worth of tea)

3. the most sopping wet pathetically sad piggy bank i ever did see

4. children's bed sheets with an indiscernible Creature

5. frame that was donated with the protective backing still on the glass but also had a really good picture of someone's cat inside

6. authentic novelty shrek the third glass that i was going to buy to jumpscare our houseguests with until my roommate informed me these are the ones with dangerous amounts of lead in them

7. denture bunks: put your teeth to bed!

[dozydawn]

Glass Bird Signed Ron Ray, Glows Under Blacklight.

[kply-industries]

[makerpreserveus]

I have nearly an entire set of the butterfly gold

[dominicdelagol2]

Cadmium with her own deck of Pokemon cards, including Grass Energy!

[uraniumglasspoisoning]

I've finally finished my display case! The first version of it, anyway. I decided I wanted 365nm UV lights and not the more standard 395-405nm, and I didn't want to spend $80+ on 365nm LED strip lights that had no reviews online, so I went with a pair of Sunlite bulbs with good reviews. The lights are good, but my cabinet is too tall for them, so the light is very weak on the bottom shelf.

Now to wait until my cat is distracted so I can open the cabinet to take detail shots without Soshimi climbing in....

[naos-camera]

i pick the cup based on the vibe of my guest

[shiftythrifting]

I finally found them... The lead Garfield cups! Did not buy them because as tempting as it was, getting lead poisoning for the bit didn't seem like the best idea. Also found a very cute margarita glass and a whole bunch of TNG collectable plates. And finally the crown jewel, my fish box! Went in looking for a trinket box and he is everything I dreamed of im obsessed