r/manganeseglass Oct 02 '22

Lighting suggestions?

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Hi everyone! I’ve been finding manganese glass now that I finally picked up a 365nm flashlight… but I’m having trouble finding a good lighting option to display it on shelves. What do y’all use?


r/manganeseglass 1d ago

Senecbusch No320

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55 Upvotes

Thick manganese glass writing station. $4 thrift, in perfect condition. Nice glow on this one


r/manganeseglass 1d ago

Where can I get a set of manganese drinkware?

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45 Upvotes

I love love love the color of Hazel Atlas Amethyst glass. Sorta red purple, fluoresces a vibrant yellow green under 365nm UV light. I just picked up a couple teacup/saucer sets from a flea market today. I drink a lot of tea so they will be used. But I would really like a set of larger ounce size daily drinkware.

Does anyone have recommendations for modern manganese glass that isn't decades old, preferably easily accessible?


r/manganeseglass 2d ago

Manganese buttons!

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When my grandma passed away I got all her craft supplies which included a lot of beads and buttons. These were the only three that ended up glowing but I am delighted since I don’t have much manganese glass in my collection!


r/manganeseglass 2d ago

Grapes 🍇

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r/manganeseglass 6d ago

Millville frits "Home Sweet Home" paperweight.

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26 Upvotes

Manufactured until the late 1920s. Found in a thrift store for a couple dollars today. Glows under 265nm :)


r/manganeseglass 9d ago

First time on the hunt with my UV light!

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I'm on vacation and was let loose on a giant second-hand shop with multiple 'hangars' full of antiques.

I didn't find UG as I had hoped, but lots of glass had the typical manganese glow! I think I saw some cadmium and selenium glass, too.

First three are the ones I took home, though I'm a bit confused on the milkshake glass - is it high content manganese? The glow is more intense under 395nm, paler under 365nm but still vivid. I thought it was UG at first, but the glow is more yellow-green than the toxic green of UG.

I'll probably go back for some of these, and I found out that there's a whole other room with even more glass that I could explore - I'm just limited by money and what I can take back home in my car.

I'm happy for any info you can give me on these pieces, and just happy to share in general!


r/manganeseglass 10d ago

I didn't realise how common manganese was!!!

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I had been looking for UG for a while and decided to try my hand at manganese glass hunting. Hit about 7 charity shops today and only 1 didn't have any manganese glass! I ended up having to be picky about what I wanted to bring home with me. I am flabbergasted, is it generally this easy to come across pieces?


r/manganeseglass 12d ago

Look at her! Late 19th centuary handblown vase is putting up her manganese show for me🥰

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51 Upvotes

r/manganeseglass 14d ago

Nice Manganese Marble

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33 Upvotes

Probably Vacor Spaghetti, so not old or uncommon, but fab glow from the depths!


r/manganeseglass 16d ago

Glass i found in the back yard digging a hole for a fire pit and found this and have no clue what it came off of or what kind of glass it is and ideas would help

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r/manganeseglass 17d ago

Couple of Bagley Piano insulators 1930-60

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31 Upvotes

Really heavy peices, and a strong manganese glow :)


r/manganeseglass 18d ago

Finds at my moms house.

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86 Upvotes

Recently thought I'd found Uranium glass, learned I have alot to learn about the different reactive glasses and believe I actually found a bunch of MG.


r/manganeseglass 18d ago

Is this manganese?

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It's not the same shade of green as others in my collection, although that might be because of the shiney coating?


r/manganeseglass 19d ago

Its not hoarding if it glows

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87 Upvotes

r/manganeseglass 19d ago

A new area to explore for manganese glass for me - antique medical and laboratory glass!

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G’day everybody, it’s me, Lucky_Living_, who posted about the lightbulb with the manganese internal tube a little while ago. Lately I’m looking for new and interesting forms of manganese glass. I love all my drinking glasses and bottles and bowls, but I also want new and weird glowing pieces. Trying to come up with a new place to explore is thrilling to me. And when I’m rewarded for my efforts with a new find I’m elated. Like with this “antique glass syringe” I found online.

I had read that laboratory glass is usually not manganese because the manganese makes glass more likely to break when expanding or contracting with heat, and therefore unsuitable for many lab applications.

But this syringe gives me hope there could be some interesting pieces to be found in these fields! The barrel does not glow, but the inner plunger glows beautifully! And yes l looked at a diagram of a syringe to make sure I was getting my syringe component terminology right 😆. I would love to hear what weird and cool shit the rest of you guys are coming across out there.

Small marble for scale.


r/manganeseglass 20d ago

Art nouveau sterling overlay perfume bottle

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241 Upvotes

r/manganeseglass 20d ago

Here is my most beautiful object! A mixture of uranium and manganese, and I can’t find any information about it. I’m sure someone can help me here.

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40 Upvotes

I bought this beautiful piece for the modest sum of $6 from a thrift store and I’m asking you the classic question: do you have any information about it? I think it’s a decanter or flask, the neck seems bevelled so as to introduce a stopper. I found a similar result on a Swedish auction site of another color and there is not much information.


r/manganeseglass 20d ago

Identification Help - Manganese, Neodymium, Reproduction, Other

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r/manganeseglass 21d ago

The mighty manganese elephant

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36 Upvotes

r/manganeseglass 22d ago

Vintage Davidson Chippendale Milk Jug

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33 Upvotes

£3.50 charity shop find! 💚 My friend spotted this vintage Davidson Chippendale milk jug and immediately thought of me 😂 It’s completely clear in daylight but glows beautifully under UV. Manganese glass, I believe.

I'm obsessed with the Art Deco shape and those gorgeous fluted sides!

Any Davidson experts able to tell me more about it?


r/manganeseglass 24d ago

Street fair, £1

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42 Upvotes

Someone as informed me this Amethyst/Manganese,

I need to get a better 395nm torch


r/manganeseglass 24d ago

Any helpful information?

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11 Upvotes

Posted originally on r/cadmiumglass as that's what I originally thought it was intended to be, however I've been lead to believe it's manganese instead? I'd bought it for 50AUD and whatever it may be it still has a place in my glassware cabinet, but I'd like to know any other information about it as well.


r/manganeseglass 25d ago

Well this was unexpected.

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435 Upvotes

Picked this up a few months ago for my oddities cabinet, and after using my light on some of my UG, decided to check this holy water bottle. Sure enough. Not as brilliant as some but it’s still neat!


r/manganeseglass 25d ago

What?!

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I wanna know what this guy is talking about.