Is it safe to dine under blacklight using vintage radioactive glassware? The risk may be worth it when it comes to these rare ...

When Sarah Cooper goes secondhand shopping, she brings a little blacklight with her and shines it on everything—candlesticks, vases, dishware. If it starts glowing, often a Ghostbusters hue of neon ...

While roaming my favorite antique store outside Atlanta recently, I heard a “click click” sound and turned around to see a woman shining a black-light flashlight on a green plate. A few minutes later, ...

There’s something undeniably magical about uranium glass. Its soft green hue and eerie glow under blacklight toe the line between elegant and eccentric — and that’s exactly the appeal. In the world of ...

Many antique lovers ask me about glass of all types: Murano, Depression, Early American Pattern Glass, American Brilliant and Pyrex — and the list goes on. One of the most popular and exciting glass ...

Uranium glass occupies a little-known niche in the collectibles world, whose members appreciate its soft color and distinctive glow, which comes from the uranium added as the glass was created. The ...

Pieces of it sparkle like diamonds, and others magically glow under black light. But cut glass, uranium glass and other decorative glassware -- although often displayed in a china cabinet -- were also ...

In the first half of the 20th century, glass and ceramic makers used uranium compounds as pigments. These radioactive compounds gave desirable green and yellow tints to myriad household items, such as ...