Glass Chatroom Board

Good morning, all. 🙂 Again thanks for all your help on my candlesticks. I found the Cambridge collectors society website and emailed them a question and pic of the blue ones, asking if they know what causes them to glow. Here is their answer:

"Your candlesticks appear to be the Cambridge #1595 candlestick. They should be 8 inches tall. The color appears to be the color NCC refers to as Blue 1. It is highly reactive under black light. There are similar Cambridge blue colors but they are not reactive under black light. We do not have the specific formula for this color so I cannot tell you if one of the raw materials was an uranium salt. "

So in my listing I will quote that info so that buyers know this MAY be uranium glass but I am not claiming that it absolutely definitely is.

@amber I love Etsy for selling and compared to eBay I think it's heaven. I sold a lot of items on eBay back in 2001-2003 and now wish I still had most of them to put into my Etsy shop instead. For one thing the selling fee is lower and also there is no fee for photo hosting (five are allowed). I agree with @katie_delano that the individual seller is being not so slowly pushed out of eBay; IMHO it's been that way for awhile. The place is being flooded by large volume sellers from overseas, for one thing. Here's an example: my son wants to sell a lovely 14k white gold and diamond heart pendant that he bought in 2005 for his then-girlfriend and retrieved when they broke up 2 years ago. He's now engaged to someone else and asked me to sell the pendant on eBay. He paid $700 for it when gold was $600/oz and would take $400 for it now (when gold is $1700/oz!) ; I've had it on eBay SIX times, all at the 'best' times of year, and nary a nibble. Why? Because eBay is flooded with mass market made in Asia jewelry and a single nice item gets totally buried in the crowd, despite a decent photo and thorough description. It's so frustrating there. Unfortunately I can't put it into my shop because it's not vintage, although at this rate it'll still be sitting here in its box in the year 2525 (what a great song title, lol).

As for those amethyst/mauve/whateverthecoloriscalled short candlesticks, it looks as though that particular mould was used and is still being used by a LOT of glass companies! All the links posted so far look exactly like the ones I have, and are the same dimensions. I'm wondering if it is just too much of a grey area to even label them as "vintage". They were part of a group of tea cups, a few other china smalls, the china boudoir clock, and of course the blue candlesticks bought from the same lady. I should probably sound her out as to how long she has had the short ones and get an idea from that as to whether they are pre-1993 or not. All of the other items date from 1900 to the mid 1980s but of course that's not to say that these do.

Is there any way for me to determine visually or audibly whether they are crystal or are glass?