Uranium Glass - What is it Worth?

[@Klesh]

Please share your Uranium glass (And all other treasures!) on my Discord! discord.com/invite/GQJSvwf

[@michaelwerbick]

Just showed a pic of my partial collection on your discord. 👍

[@guillermodelnoche]

I’m a musician who comes from a family of glasshouse workers. Everyone on both sides of my family worked in a factory making beer and juice bottles. Our vacations consisted of going to the Steuben glass factory or to Sandwich Massachusetts and their glass factory. We had an entire curio cabinet full of the radiation glass. Absolutely beautiful craftsmanship.

[@michaelwerbick]

That’s a neat story. Ima UG fan and live in Cape Cod. 👍

[@agrarianyeti8134]

My father in law has a china cabinet full of inherited and bought Uranium glassware. He has it set up with uv lights just like you described, it really looks amazing turned on. Can't wait to watch your collection grow. Thanks again for another awesome video

[@BIueCat]

What a great idea for a video! Uranium glass is really cool, and a display shelf full of fluorescing glassware would look amazing.

[@Washman-jw3hl]

Hey Klesh I totally learned something new from this. I own some white glass products as a family hand down called MILK GLASS I guess. But I have never heard about this glass made with uranium before today. Thank you for sharing this.

[@brettscott4064]

I collected about a dozen pieces 20yrs ago and forgot I had them, cheers for the reminder😆🇦🇺

[@burnsblownglass2514]

Depending on the COE also influences the price, raw borosilicate uranium glass goes for roughly $400 a lb. As a glassblower it is hard to find, we don't mind recycling broken uranium glass

[@edcglassworks5771]

I’m a boro lampworker and I remember when the old nasa uranium borosilicate tubes were still floating around and they would go for as high as 800 a tube for 50mm x2mm tubes. Haven’t seen any though since the early 2000’s a few companies do make uv tubing and rod and it’s about $100-$120 a Lbs now if I’m not mistaken. I absolutely love glass lol.

[@leonacrowley164]

That cup and saucer are really pretty. I love the green.

[@Klesh]

I think so too!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Honestly a great yard sale find. What a cool bit of history to own!

[@Klesh]

Hey mate!

[@legoheadmania]

Cool thing is. My mom has been collecting green glass. Just because she was obsessed with green glass. I should see if some are uranium glass. You might have inspired me on a new hobby! Thanks! I hope you have one he'll of a awesome day!!

[@jay0kew]

Thanks for the video Shane. I have 2 green glass vases and some green wine glasses that were from my great-grandmother and i heritated them through my grandmother. I will definitly try to find out how they react under UV. I don't think it is uranium glass because it is less green in colour than what you see on pictures. But you never know. When it comes to "green" colour it is surprising how toxic that colour must have been in the past. Absinth was a yellow liquour and got coloured by toxic blue copper sulfate to make it green. Wallpaper was painted green with Scheele's green, an arsenic salt and green glass was made with uranium... i keep it with white... Oh no, that was made with lead carbonate... Yellow ? No, toxic cadmium sulphide. OK red then? Sorry, cinnaber or mercury sulphide, also toxic... Blue ? Prusian blue, a cyanide salt... Or Lapis lazuli but that comes with a price tag... Colours were toxic in the old days !!!

[@v12dot]

Great info thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@HurleyDeanSandpointIdaho]

Very educational. New to me. Thank You... Hi from Sandpoint, Idaho USA.

[@treasuretom13]

Hey Shane I was very lucky and while chasing a penny with a metal detector at an old bottle dump I dug out the most beautiful diamond cut Uranium glass Inkwell! Cory from Crick Diggers dated it from 1880 to 1905. I wrote an article on it published recently in American Digger. Let me know if you want me to send pic

[@Klesh]

Cool! Please share it on my Discord (link to all social in description)

[@owenlee6125]

Been watching you from the UK for a long time now. You and a few others have inspired me

[@darntootin6423]

Cool story about uranium glasses, after this video am going to get a uv light and hit up the many thrift stores here in Massachusetts. Definately learned lots today. Great!👍👍

[@darrengolding4083]

Thanks for teaching us about Uranium glass . Very interesting video

[@roymcintyre579]

I have several pieces of this glass made by Fenton. I have one cabinet with a LED UV bulb and it gets turned on at night and we use the glow as a night light. We have found pieces and sets at garage sales. I scored a Uranium Glass oil lamp for $2.00 about two weeks ago and it was appraised for $300.00. Not a bad investment for $2.00.

[@Klesh]

Very cool!

[@jduce818]

Try sticking a neodymium magnet in the cup with water and some ferro surfactant fluid . What you get is a hologram . And imo it’s similar to what we see in the moon , (ie)a crater. There’s a yt channel called Theoria Apophasis who I’ve followed for years and he’s done it

[@stevewinchester6506]

Neat, I have one square dish of uranium glass. I hit it with my C8 Convoy light and HELLO!

[@longseafirerybell2030]

Lucky find mate! I brought a small uranium cup from a seller and they charged me well over a hundred for it. So that peice might not be particularly​ valuable, however it is still a lovely little collectable...

[@GSProspecting]

Cool find fam. Gold Squad Out!!!

[@Micotech1]

Great info on green glass, i happen to have some, did not know it may be valuable, Thanks Mico...

[@m.s.2926]

🤓 Now I got really jealous! That's my favorite color and that cup is to die for❣ Btw; the cup there does not contain enough uranium to be harmful, even if you ate the whole cup. 💚🤟

[@Klesh]

It’s very cool and I’ll be looking for more everywhere I go thanks for the comment !

[@OneMorePan]

Extremely interesting! Gonna keep my eyes peeled 🤘

[@Detectaddict]

Love uranium glass I collect it and went through my wife’s old jewellery collection and found quite a few pieces

[@YAH_IsRealLight]

💚 Love the content! 💚 Keep it coming Klesh!

[@Klesh]

Always!

[@Tornbjergs]

NileRed made an awesome video on making uranium glas !

[@ShirlBussman]

Never heard of this kind of glass. It's very interesting and beautiful. Thanks for bringing this to all of us. ☺☺

[@dontkilImejay]

Love the Uranium ore, very cool. Have always wondered what it looked like naturally.

[@LoneHowler]

It's really hard to tell in sunlight because it's already reacting to the UV in the sunlight. For five bucks u usually pick it up even if I'm not sure, because they're usually depression era or older, and that's collectable too

[@44070Swinger]

Very interesting video Klesh! Thank you.

[@demigod1337]

Careful with 365 NM. It can cause other glass to glow as well that is not UG. I would recommend 395 for any hunting. If your end goal is just, "cool glow glass" then it doesn't matter lol. I love your main video topics but, when I seen this one you earned a sub on that alone. I'm a treasure hunter to the bone but, my treasure usually glows. God bless and if your ever wondering about UG or vaseline, vaseline tends to be yellow and older in general, then I always welcome a challenging question or research project.

[@Klesh]

Thanks!

[@davidclarke6658]

Radioactive red Fiestaware (uranium in the glaze) I noticed in the US has a following too and some pieces bring good money. Other manufacturers used uranium in there glazes too, but people just think of Fiestaware when you mention radioactive glaze. Also uranium glaze is a lot more radioactive. People are not into Uranium glazed products here in Australia, but uranium glass is popular.

[@badmom2goody29]

Some cream opaque glass was made with uranium and glows as well. Good hunting!

[@timsmith9645]

Awesome didn't know that was a thing to collect thanks for the info and thanks for sharing klesh

[@dennisjamieson3328]

Absolutely learned something about this. Tks for telling us about it.

[@daz41262010]

cool video Shane with interesting info on uranium glass and eBay sold items :)

[@rickcreamer8193]

My wife and I collect uranium glass. There are many unique pieces out there!

[@FluffyMugiLand]

I remember my grandmother has glasses like this did not knew there was uranium in them I always liked the green colour

[@TarnishedViking.]

UV lights are awesome! I use it for checking plant health, epidermis/skin health, invisible molds and if I had teeth, I'd check them too! 🤣🤘👍

[@pandemicgrower4212]

I've been keeping an eye out for some of these at my goodwill. nothing to date but one day. cool stuff 🍻

[@NeboGold]

Thanks for the info. Always learning!✨️

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

Also there are other glass that glows other colors that isn’t U92, there is orange, red, blue. The orange Festa ware pottery is U92. And there are many Vaseline Collector Clubs, both online and IRL, they have trade shows!!

[@seanparchim9165]

You can find Vaseline glass on glass beach in fort Bragg cali every now and again,I found a couple pieces a few years back,pretty cool stuff✌️ Napa California

[@lankywhiteguy]

Such a fascinating thing. Well done

[@EverydayLayman]

Hey man, uranium glass and depression glass is good stuff. Cool vid.

[@Metal-Detecting-NC]

WOW, imagine back then eating lead paint chips then drinking from uranium cups... my oh my have things changed. LoL. Seriously, great find! I like it.

[@chasecarlson4900]

Hyalite opal is super similar, faint traces of uranium in the opal react to ultraviolet light and fluorescence that same green color

[@benc.enlots]

I lost all mine, along with my entire antique collection, to a fire seven years ago. Always loved the glow.

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

I’m so sorry! I hope you have started to rebuild!!

[@benc.enlots]

@@mary-ruthflores4107 Thank you very much. It isn't what it once was but life is still good. May God Bless you and yours.🙏

[@kiwibob223]

That's not good. Hope no one was hurt. We lost everything in a fire when I was 21, we were safe up the road phoning sister in Europe for her birthday (back when you had to book overseas calls and we didn't have a phone at home). We would normally have been sound asleep. My brother came home and found house on fire tried to get into our room but was beaten back by the heat. We got back just as brigade was telling him there was no way for them to enter building and look for us. I ran up to the group of neighbors and could hear him talking to the brigade. I called out and he literally leaped about 5 feet into the air 🤣. Lost everything except the clothes we were wearing. The salvation army looked after us for 2 days. They do some great work.

[@benc.enlots]

@@kiwibob223 I woke to the fire. Didn't lose any people but had to bury six animals including my service dog. I escaped Hollywood style,... crashing through a window out in to the snow because both exits were impassable. I had to go a mile down the road like that just to get help.... helluva way to meet the new neighbors, covered in burns and soot standing at their doorway in my underwear! It is an experience I wish on noone, glad you got through it, too.👊💪

[@benc.enlots]

@@kiwibob223 The Red Cross assisted us but it was really our church congregants that supported us in our cleanup and recovery.

[@gayleleier8115]

If you are still reading comments on this video - I just had an epiphany. Been collecting beads for years. Love Czech glass. Bought a lot of vintage from an Ebayer. Got a blacklight and my jewelry stash lit up. Over the years probably spent 40,000 on beads. Made a lot of jewelry also. Also, have over 4 lbs of bugle beads that light up. Bought them in kilos and had to wash all of them. Probably about 40 lbs Czech glass. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

[@Klesh]

Sorry for the late reply, and no I unfortunately know nothing about czech glass, sounds interesting though

[@chanheosican6636]

You should check it with a radation meter. GC. How much gamma rays are given off.

[@JohnnySwedishScrapper]

thats is realy awesome great video

[@jethrogritty3284]

Way cool vid...so informative...👍JG

[@Bleepbleepblorbus]

Guess I got lucky about seeing those, saw entire shelves of them at the antique mall downtown.

[@gnomespace]

U235? That is the bomb material. Unlikely as that is such a very small part of the U family. More likely the MUCH more plentiful U238 which is non-fissile although it does have some 235 through decomposition. They exist together in nature but are VERY hard to separate, or you can just blast your 238 with neutrons and get straight to the plutonium bits.

[@burnsblownglass2514]

It is, depleted U238, it can be ordered online

[@gnomespace]

@@burnsblownglass2514 that's fine, but it is not bomb material.

[@burnsblownglass2514]

@@gnomespace I was agreeing with you... I actually know how to make this stuff... I am a glassblower

[@philmayston4011]

Hello there I was wondering if you. Could please help. Me out with some uranium glass I have purchased ,plus two glass vases I'm not sure if they're chalet glass ,Murano glass I've searched to the best of my ability and cannot find an identical pair anywhere ,.. It would be nice to hear back from you bye for now

[@Klesh]

Best bet is use google lens to try finding something like it

[@CorvanDongen1]

What type of torch should I buy, which wavelength?

[@trentan2_]

395nm if you don't want false positives.

[@jjdjj5392]

Cool video!

[@flanneljoe7473]

We may or may not have collected uranium glass in the strippens behind Hazleton about 25 years ago

[@Klesh]

Across 309 from Stefanisko's , back in the woods there's an old bottle dump too. Do I know you

[@flanneljoe7473]

@@Klesh Yes sir. It was you, Chris and me back there. Haven't seen either of you guys in a long time.

[@Klesh]

@@flanneljoe7473 joe? K? Wow man yeah we got ourselves into some fun situations pretty much every day between 1993-1997

[@Klesh]

@@flanneljoe7473 What the hell you been up to man

[@flanneljoe7473]

@@Klesh Not a heck of a lot. Working. Now that the kids are older, been getting back in to all the old shenanigans. Outdoors and Bass

[@briankrouch430]

Good info thank you.

[@NorthernMan932]

My town here in the UK is full of charity shops, my UV torch has been ordered.

[@zer0deaths862]

And here I am trying to figure out exactly what the pink crystal set I have is from my great great grandmother she got about 120 years ago, apparently it used to be clear and turned pink over the years but I'm not sure. 🤔

[@Klesh]

Yes pink glass back then is called depression glass. It was given away with items such as furniture and clothing and even oatmeal back in those depression years. The pink glass is quite common along with the green uranium glass, blue glass and Amber color as well.

[@mickeyedwards9130]

I don't know this but they also made uranium marbles which I have and they are beautiful. There worth a little bit of money

[@MrMarcreed]

Wow, it’d be awesome to find a chandelier with black lights!!42%er!

[@patrickwalsh1044]

Great video!!;

[@neggispringfeild]

Funny today I. Found my second ever uranium glass (first in the wild) it's light blue which I've never seen and of course glows bright green under blacklight

[@islam-mahkachevfan]

I have not seen your videos in a while great job tho👍🏼

[@Klesh]

Weekly uploads on this channel, and DAILY uploads on my KleshGuitars channel check it out (link in description!) Thnks!

[@hooahextreme]

Very cool.

[@robwilliams287]

my daughter has an ETSY store and resold some of this glass she had found, she did very well. the only problem was she was pretty terrified packing it up to ship to buyers but all of her packages survived.

[@ahmedalmurshidi2638]

I think its cool. and for 5 bucks, I'd take it all day.. Its something you don't come across everyday, that makes it some how special. atleast to me.

[@daltonm6764]

I've got a good collection of uranium glass. I can't go anywhere without my pocket UV light 🤣

[@glentimmins7560]

So would that be the same as depression glass or is that something entirely different altogether?

[@daltonm6764]

Some depression glass is uranium glass. Have to check it with a UV light

[@Nick_Jarrett]

I've only seen uranium glass once before many years ago, back when I was too young to know they had uranium in them

[@donovandagenhart1161]

Hey Shane have a quick question so came across this super bright silver on gold material the other day and was just curious how do you and can you tell if it's mercury and or raw mercury.. has me a bit freaked because I'm constantly in this area sometimes in sandals and no gloves so bit concerned it may be mercury let me know when you have a chance or see this thanks

[@Klesh]

Elemental mercury will not hurt you unless it’s ingested.

[@donovandagenhart1161]

Appreciate the quick response! Love the new shop great work man have a great sunday!

[@chrismartin1500]

I've been looking for uranium glass for a long time. It is awesome. Also could you get a Geiger counter (not sure if I spelled it right) and check the ore you got. Have noted your videos for years. Wish I could afford to support you, but if you're ever up in wa feel free to reach out, be happy to show you around

[@lostcontrol1981]

Very interesting! I’ve never heard of Uranium glass before. I’ll certainly be on the lookout for it now. I wonder if it’s more of a US thing?

[@NonkelGans]

In Europe you can find it too, rare stuff sells quick and high but there is many stuff nobody wants. Lots of art deco and common house hold items. If you are not too picky you can build up a nice display case full of Uranium glass in no time. I slowly building my display case and it doesn't cost me much. A big black light tube in the back and you're golden.

[@kiwibob223]

Very interesting

[@dastinvandenberg2925]

could you check how much gold there is in a bag of aquarium sand

[@G-regular503]

Bout time forna new one egh?

[@rattlesnakeprospecting875]

Oldest version of fiesta ware was irritated the glaze had it in it.

[@amethystAnge7]

💜 Enjoy the video

[@MUDSWAT]

Cool!

[@klj2382]

so I shouldn’t use 1 for a cereal bowl?

[@Klesh]

Sure ya can

[@dzymslizzy3641]

With something like that cup and saucer, with ebay's fees, their intolerance for actual shipping costs, etc....you'd probably not break even, but end up paying someone to take it off your hands! As far as "safe levels," it wasn't so safe for the workers handling it day in and day out...

[@emilyjayne77]

Go to the stores and search uranium glass out 😯 I want one of those torches 🔦

[@Klesh]

Torch! Must be from the UK! I 😍 the UK

[@emilyjayne77]

@@Klesh English through and though 😌

[@reinaldofigueira]

Collect the all set...!

[@jakepfeifer7043]

I’m a professional glass blower (having been blowing glass for 20 years? and can tell You a lot more about it if you like.

[@forreststrong797]

I have a roughly 6 inch long glass cow figurine made out of that glass.

[@tabascoraremaster1]

I think it is also called vaseline glass. Maybe you can surch on that name is well.

[@cooperthomas9211]

I go to thrift stores all the time to look for this

[@bazonis1gp]

super..

[@mickeyedwards9130]

Let me know if you're interested in some antique uranium marbles

[@joshthompson2184]

My girlfriend bought a uranium glass candy dish at an estate sale for $3 that she sold it for $85

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

Be careful when using UV lights, they get very hot, I had a display but had to set up a fan to cool it. It is amazing! Also it looks wonderful in the sun and gas light. The electric and fluorescent lights dampen the natural glow. Also UV green and yellow depression glass, many used U92 as a colorant. And yes that is depression glass

[@ahmedalmurshidi2638]

Not to mention that it is atleast 80 years old.

[@773BangLS]

42% right here.

[@kennethtran4706]

man that stuff is disappointing thought it was worth more. like $15. picked up12 small pieces at an antique fair in a box for $2 each. one was a measuring cup worth about $75. The rest just $10 each.

[@Klesh]

Sweet

[@torbjrngleerup5716]

👍

[@FenianAn1mal]

Wow...I dug the video right up to the point where you said it's the same uranium as in nuclear weapons. Big swing and a miss. The various manufacturers used uranium oxide(along with various mineral additives to produce different colors), and NOT weapons grade uranium 235. For those who wish to see it mad3, look on yt channel Nile Red....he does a video making uranium glass.

[@KleshGuitarsOfficial]

Weapons grade uranium is absolutely derived from the element Uranium

[@FenianAn1mal]

@@KleshGuitarsOfficial this is somewhat true. By definition weapons grade material needs to be primarily 80%+ u235....the remainder being uranium. The distinction here being u235 is an isotope OF uranium....big difference. Interesting side note connected with this glassware and the manhattan project : they found uranium scarce to make it because of the vast amount of it needed for just one bomb. The little boy bomb (gun type weapon) needed approx 65kg of u235 to function. Since u235 makes up less than 1% of natural uranium....

[@boarbot7829]

It’s worthless. You can easily buy larger pieces for less than that on eBay. (But there is often postage).