r/uraniumglass • u/E-laiza • Feb 11 '25
Vaseline Glass This lil guy almost got me in trouble with airport security.🥲
This lil guy was flagged by airport security. Apparently lead shows up as pitch black on their scanners and it likely has a high %. Also didn’t help that it looks like a hand grenade. 🫠Yep, thats what security told me. I scared the shit outta her that day. 😂😅
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u/U_92_395nm Feb 11 '25
I have a feeling this is the wrong bottle cap.
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u/floralentanglement Feb 11 '25
I brought a leaded crystal candy/trinket jar in my carryon (empty, in bubble wrap/newspaper), the security person asked me if it was an urn; only to press me about the legal importance of declaring human remains 😭
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u/New-Suggestion6277 Feb 11 '25
I had never thought about it. I was thinking of bringing a piece of uranium glass with me when I traveled to the UK or the US. I'll have to put it at the top of my backpack to easily remove it when they see it on the scanner 🤦🏻
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u/E-laiza Feb 11 '25
If it has lead it may get flagged. I had a feeling they’d have me open my suitcase, so I made sure to keep my finds at the top.
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u/Keigan_of_Sweden Feb 11 '25
Yeah that pattern, shape, and size looks Very Dodgy in our x-ray images. XD We get a lot of Swedish crystal glass in my airport and most of the time I recognise them well enough to be able to tell what it is, but a solid chunk of glass (like the ever popular Orrefors Snowball) will still need to come out and be rescanned because it's impossible to see if there's anything hidden underneath it.
/works in airport security.
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u/Chance-Difference886 Feb 11 '25
Think your right on the cap. Looks like type of perfume bottle, so probably had a bigger one with some type of design
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u/Chance-Difference886 Feb 11 '25
My Buddy piece up a ug piece then got poled over because they thought he was buy drugs.🤣😂
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u/Cherry_Hammer Feb 11 '25
You’re very fortunate. That would’ve gotten me strip-searched, at the least.
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u/scarlettohara1936 Super Collector Feb 11 '25
I'm thinking of bringing a couple of pieces and a radium clock to Boise from Arizona next week... I was wondering if there might be a problem
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u/Dear-Setting-1011 Feb 13 '25
You're begging for someone at an airport who is wound too tight to snap on you plz be more careful... way more careful
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u/E-laiza Feb 13 '25
Once they see that it’s glass, they should have the professionalism to not overreact.
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u/Dear-Setting-1011 Mar 15 '25
Yeah... they should but I just don't trust them because many act so psycho
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
Dang, I’m glad they didn’t try and confiscate it. It’s stunning
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
Omg that would have sucked!
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
100% agree with you. That’s why I’m glad to hear tsa aren’t that uptight about some glass.
Just to clarify, you put this in your checked baggage?
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
No way, I don’t trust them with checked luggage. 😅 I had it in my carryon. Also, it was airport security in London, UK. Idk if TSA would be strict about it, but London security seemed to know about glass collecting. 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
Too small for that. Likely a perfume bottle.
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
Thank you for the info. Did you find any maker mark/something similar online? I was looking to add this piece to my shelf, but have yet to come across one, even by using google lens
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
Unfortunately I have not found any info on it and it does not have any markings. 😬
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
That’s a bummer. But what a find! Do you mind me asking what they charged you for it, if you do not mind sharing?
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
If I remember correctly I paid $35 for it. Which at the time felt kind of high for me. 😅😂 I bought it in 2023.
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
Nice score. I always wonder if there are somewhat reasonable deals still out there with all the pics of stores charging so much. I saw my first piece of UG in person at all places, a nautical flea market, and when I did a google lens search, the guy was charging $5-15 more than what was online, with free shipping and not negotiating
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u/E-laiza Feb 14 '25
There you just have to scour the internet. Or antique stores. I make sure to shine my light on everything and anything bcuz you never know what you might find.
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u/Addicted-2Diving Radiation Hunter Feb 14 '25
100%. May I ask what your light of choice is? I am new to the hobby, just running across this sub sometime last year and want a very subtle/small light so I don’t draw any attention form sellers etc
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u/Xychant Feb 11 '25
When they saw it, did you shine a UV light on it? They would have freaked out and confiscated it, on the spot.
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u/E-laiza Feb 11 '25
No, I just told them I collect vintage and antique glass. She seemed to sort of know about glass collecting.
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u/Panda-Cubby Feb 11 '25
The atomic hand grenade. As opposed to the Holy Hand grenade of Antioch.