Irradiated glass research - do you have any nice pieces?

[Arob]

Hey TQers - I need some help.

I recently wrote about irradiated glass bottles on Dumpdiggers,

here is the exact thread Irradiated Glass, the Amethyst Color of Greed

Now a reporter here in Toronto wants me to write (re write) the whole story, paid fees of course, and use ORIGINAL PICTURES. It will become a bottle collectors beware - the evils of eBay story.

So now I need to rewrite and find some original pictures of real nice pieces that have been irradiated (to alter color)... weird huh. ironically photos of afficted bottles are worth something to me.. invaluable actually.

I have no irradiated glass to photograph (but I used to have a purple coke bottle).

Does anyone out there have any pieces and photos they can donate to help promote the purity of our hobby? I say donate but I will definitely buy you a Paypal beer or what have you if I use the pics... name your price
Thanks

[rktect_1]

This is also an ongoing issue in the insulator world, and I know there are a couple of people out there that have done some research on insulator and irradiation. They would probably be happy to include some photos if you wanted to use them. Just a thought, although it would probably be more work for you, so I don't know. But you never know unless you ask.

If your interested I could maybe put you in contact with some of them. Might be a cool oportunity to cover both bottles and insulators. Let me know and I will see if I can dig them up.

John

[bdahunter]

Try contacting Beach Hunter on the Find's Forum. I know he has some irradiated glass, full bottles I'm not sure about but definitely glass with pics under blacklight.

Cheers,

BDA

[prizm-pal]

Arob I stumbled across a place while detecting I am sure you would find interesting.... no trace this was ever a dump....but got a signal and found one of the old metal containers milk came in the ground was all like ash after further investigation the area was very large and deep...I mean at least 100ft by 100ft.... I am going to make some kind of sifter with screen small enough so dimes will stay in it....I will be kind of detecting without a detector I found some whole bottles that didn't seam as though they were burnt .... welcome to T.Q..... and I will keep you posted with any finds.... too bad you are so far away If you were close to me I would take you there!....Chick!!!

[bbqcook]

I have a irradiated dime

[rktect_1]

Here is a link to some photos of irridiated insulators if your interested. Some of these collectors have done extensive research and shared with everyone in an attempt to protect the integrity of the hobby and educate everyone.

Insulator PicturePoster Gallery

[KellycoChick]

Arob,

Welcome to TQ and really awesome blog ya got there! Glad you found us and hope you stick around,.. you write about some really cool stuff! I don't know anything about your Irradiated glass, but it was a really awesome blog you had and thanks for sharing!

[Arob]

hey everyone

I'm glad everyones like Dumpdiggers - its a passion of mine

a reaction to my own bottle bug infection perhaps... I caught it in 98

I don't know anything about irradiated insulators either - but the Glass Insulators Reference Site link is helpful thanks rk_tect1...... i bookmarked it

i collect Toronto druggist bottles and not because they're worth anything - i just think that the names and addresses on the slug plates pinpoint an era like nothing else...

my own collection is collecting dust in the rafters atop my father's honey house - im not making this up -- my dad was / is still? the biggest beekeeper in southern ontario. no kidding. he winters in Texas now though...

i will focus some of the blog on my childhood farm boy haunts this summer no doubt - (and maybe next winter i'll do Texas) perhaps a special weekend post about me digging out my bottle collection that i dug although university and after in dumps in and around warkworth, campbellford, havelock and peterborough (and brighton) and of course toronto - i never went to a bottle show until 1998 and then it was actually quite discouraging as there were so many rare specimans there and so much of what i thought valuable was indeed ... junk.

but Toronto druggists bottles are cool and someday i will line a whole wall with a little glass boxes in which each box there is a different sizes or sizes of druggist bottles.

anyway i don't know why i wrote all that - because you complimented my blog.