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Today we drove 90 minutes east to pick up our auction wins, then headed to my wife's favorite thrift store (which bored me for an hour), then headed home. Around 3 p.m. we spotted and stopped at a yard sale. Normally, I wouldn't expect to see many on a Sunday, but it rained Saturday and so there were quite a few.

They must have been close to shutting down, because a woman at the sale immediately tried to talk me into filling a paper bag for $5. I told her I needed to look around first. I didn't initially see much of interest, but then I spotted an interesting dish. A green dish. I called my wife over and she agreed that it might be uranium glass. We had our keychain black lights, but in the sunlight it was hard to be sure.

"What about those?" I asked, pointing across the table to a stack of green plates. "No," she said. "I don't think so." But we tried the black light on them and thought they MIGHT be glowing.

So I bought a $5 paper bag, put in the plates (nine in total) and then loaded the bag with other things like new corkscrews, electric light timers and I don't even know what else.

We headed to the new house to unload. While there, we used a closet to check out the plates, and... they glow.

We have 1 of the brightly glowing plate, 3 of the flower plate, and 5 of the swirled-edge plate. Stores in this area (and online) would likely charge $90 to $150 for them all. The first plate clearly has more uranium in it than the others. It's probably worth the most.

And so our collection grows. Three photos follow.






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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 02 May 23 4:46 AM 		Msg. 42183 of 60008

We drove to Nashua today to pick up the auction items from last week. There were eleven, I think. Everything was there, intact and as advertised, so I was happy.

At home, we found that the uranium glass fluoresces as it should. They are very small glasses. I had expected something the size of a wine glass, but these are more like shot glasses. Ah well. Still nice, but probably not something I'll retire on.

My wife wanted to visit a thrift store, so we did that too. By that time, I needed to use a john. My wife asked an employee if the store had one. "Yes," she replied. "The door is locked. Follow me." "Go with her," my wife said. "Oh," the employee said. "It's for a man?" She walked to the registers and yelled to one of the guys. "Hey, we've got a BATHROOM, MAN! Can you take it?" Apparently he couldn't, so she pointed to the back of the store and told me to wait there for someone to let me in. I was halfway there when I heard her voice on the store's P.A.: "CODE B.M.! CODE B.M.! IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE FOR A CODE B.M.!"

It's been hours and I'm still laughing. 3 pics follow:

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