Featured Moser? Help identifying

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  1. j thomas

    j thomas New Member

    Hello, i'm new to this site and i hope i'm posting this to the appropriate place. I recently acquired this heavy czech glass decanter with two glasses. It appears to be very similar to other Moser pieces i located online but i cannot find anything about the label on the bottle. Any help would be greatly appreciated! I had to crop the main photo to bring it below the upload size cap.
    thank you! PXL_20211107_032931762~3.jpg PXL_20211107_032947135~4.jpg
     
  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    *crs*, pearlsnblume and judy like this.
  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I wouldn't know, but it sure is pretty. I'd try taking a glass out in daylight and see if it's a different color. Then run it under a fluorescent bulb (not one of the new ones) and see what you get. A color change doesn't mean Moser, but it does mean neodynum glass.
     
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  4. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    Oskar Pursch ?
     
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  5. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    The word is neodymium. ;) It's a rare earth element added to glass to achieve colour change in different light temperatures. It goes blue to lilac. Other rare earths do different changes.

    I agree with Fid.

    Lovely set.
     
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  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Joolies call it alexandrite glass; my brain farted on the chemical name.
     
  7. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    It gets called alexandrite by glass peeps, too. I'm as much a chemistry geek as a botany one. ;)
     
  8. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    When I hear Neodymium I have to ask myself "OK, is this a piece of glass or a magnet". Old school speaker magnets are neodymium, as a magnet fishing devices. (magnet fishing is a sort of fun way to clean iron-based junk out of rivers, streams, lakes etc. Fun if you're dead bored, like regular fishing, only you don't have to worry about size limits or bag limits.)
     
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  9. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Magnet fishing is huge here. London canals are full of all sorts of weird stuff.
     
  10. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I guess when an area's been indistrialized for 250 years there's no telling what's gone over the side.
     
  11. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    There's a tendency to find the odd unexploded bomb or two, we've a few of those still.
     
  12. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Oops. Not sure I'd want to hook into one of those! Unstable explosives aren't my idea of a good time.
     
  13. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Huge ones are still found: builders unearthed a 500 lb one not that far from me about four years ago.
     
  14. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Some of them make the papers even over here. I wouldn't have wanted to hit that thing with a bulldozer. Talk about digging a foundation hole the hard way.
     
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