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I understand that if you look at these beads upside down with your left eye squinted during a full moon, that there is a vision of Paul Mc Cartney to be seen......
but seriously folks. I think what you are seeing is the result of a little de vit showing reflection with the black light. the vaseline beads that glow are a uranium glass, which flouresces nicely. The red in the bead shown is an opaque made with cadmiium/selenium in a flourine opal base. the flourine opal will devitrify if pulled a bit cold giving it a pearlescent look. I"d bet the black light picks up this and throws it back as a reflection..... jeez the lengths we go to inspect and analyze. Maybe xray will be next. Actually I want to do some specrtographic analysis on some in the future.
As to who ground them John Picard had a bunch of these ground in Italy from some old cane he bought twenty years back. He since had the cane reproduced in Italy which has clouded the issue some-and someone, John I think, had some of the same color stack made in India a few years back. . The India ones are pretty well made for India chevrons, but still very identifyable as
India made by the glass quality and production values. I'm sure Jamey could weigh in on this one.
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