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Thank you.
S. Walter
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Subject: Re: porcelain id
> Our experience is that hard paste porcelain always looks the same under UV
> shortwave light, wherever it was made.
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> Barbara H. Magid
> Alexandria Archaeology Museum
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> One thing you might give a try, is to illuminate the pieces under long
> and/or shortwave ultraviolet light. Certain types of artifacts, though
> characterized as the same type (lead glass) will glow or fluoresce at
> a different wavelength due to their different chemical compositions,
> methods of manufacture, changing formula, etc., perhaps, and maybe
> (like CSI and their filter glasses) show a fundamental difference
> between the two.
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> George Myers
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> (lead glass generally fluoresces vs. regular glass)
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