Featured Uranium glass(crystal?) goblets - anyone recognize?

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  1. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    7" tall - 3" diameter at the rim. They ring out like crystal when I tap them or run my finger around the rim - don't know if they are actually crystal but I assume they are. Thanks again!

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  2. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi,
    They are beautiful!!!!!!
    greg
     
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  3. Iowa Jayhawk

    Iowa Jayhawk Well-Known Member

    Looks rather like a number of Hocking Glass patterns. Not near my books at the present time, but these should be easy to identify.
     
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    aaroncab in veritate victoria

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  5. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Oh, I have three that look just like this! They are 7" tall but diameter at the rim is slightly over 3", more like 3.25" -- so may be something different from yours. Thanks for posting! I had forgotten about them. Pulled them out of the cabinet and they are a little grimy so will wash them. I bought them at an antique shop many years ago, in the early 1980s, I think. And had very little money at the time so am sure that I didn't pay much.
     
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  6. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Let's see em'! :)

    I just re-measured and the height is about 6 7/8" and the width is 3 1/8"(maybe just a tad wider than that) so - not exactly what I first posted - but close
     
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  7. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Okay, if you can put up with poor photos.

    It might be just a little while. I was thinking of going out on an errand and still have to wash them.

    Oh, and the diameter on mine is really between 3 1/8" and 3 1/4" -- but seems closer to the latter.
     
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  8. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Sounds to be about the same as mine then!
     
  9. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Finally, here they are! @aaroncab

    Using indirect natural light.

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  10. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    The color, to me, actually looks more like the color in your second and third photos. There is more yellow than seems to show in my photos. I've never tried to see if they were uranium glass but now am sure they would be.

    Also, they ring when tapped, just as you described.
     
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  11. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Ok, and two more to show some other features, like the sort of ribbing that is like on yours.

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  12. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Pretty sure those are the same as mine ... the color kind of changes depending on the lighting and in some light they do look as green as yours. I'm sure yours are uranium glass too. Very good pics! Thanks for taking the time to do that. Now hopefully someone will recognize them... or I'll find them somewhere on the net.
     
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  13. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    I should mention that one of mine has a small chip on the edge of the foot or base. And one has a small rough spot in the top rim. It is probably a very small chip but it just looks and feels like a rough spot. The chip in the base was there when I got them. Can't remember about the rough spot. I have used them before but not often. Only a few times over all these years.
     
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  14. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Are these something maybe you could find on one of those EAG pattern websites maybe? Not sure.
     
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  15. Cronker

    Cronker Active Member

    I’m not an expert by any stretch, but I’m not sure that uranium “crystal” was a thing??
    They are lovely though.
     
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  16. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    JMHO, but I don't think uranium glass was made of crystal, i.e. lead glass with uranium in the mix.
     
  17. Cronker

    Cronker Active Member

    FWIW - these uranium glasses would fetch perhaps twice as much as the same in crystal, at least where I am.

    That being said, if you have a chip on any of the rims, that will devalue them by quite a bit.
     
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  18. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    I certainly don't know...but several glass websites I saw said uranium was used in crystal when it first started being used to color glass. That being said - Other than these glass goblets sounding like crystal... I really have no reason to believe they are.

    http://www.theglassmuseum.com/uranium.htm
     
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  19. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

    These might be Fostoria. They used that same stem/base on a lot of their different glasses I believe it was the #766 stem. and the optic bowl looks like it too. they had two different optics wide and thin panels.

    Mike
     
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  20. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Thank you Mike - looking on replacements now - found some Fostoria very close (same stem and optic, same size, non uranium).

    https://www.replacements.com/p/fostoria-766-water-goblet/fos766/16936471
     
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