My favorite type of collectible glass has always been Uranium Glass. I was attracted to it’s bright glowing color as a child looking at my grandmother’s few precious pieces in her china cabinet.
What I didn’t know until I started to research it, is that this product actually did have uranium added to it, or diuranate which is an oxide of uranium. The shortage of the element during the cold war led to the decline in production of this type of glassware. Another interesting fact is that real Vaseline Glass or Uranium Glass will glow under black light.
Vaseline Glass is generally used as the term for the yellow and Jadite for the green.
Some of the more commonly found American manufacturers of depression era Uranium Glass are Fenton, Mosser an Gibson.
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