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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9488738, member: 76316"]The blue one is 5 1/2" X ~5 3/16", an' maybe 5/16" to 3/8" thick near the center. The pattern is all on the side facing you inna 1st pic; it's flat onna backside, 2nd pic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The purple one is ~4" X ~4", ~1/4" thick. The decorative pattern, which shows best in the 5th pic, is facing you in the 4th pic; the 'lens' is on the backside, pic 5 & 6. Neither tile is UV reactive.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a sailboat, I think the purple one would be called a deck light, or something similar...it would be maybe 3/4" thick, though, to allow plenty of strength. The 'lens' is a series of saw-tooth ridges having the most vertical facet toward my hand, on the left...so apparently meant to direct light in a specific direction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've had them both for perhaps 25 years...they came together, with a third that sadly got broken almost immediately...sigh.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can imagine the blue one incorporated in a leaded or copper-foil panel, as simply decorative. But the other, with that saw-tooth lens...is a puzzle. I've never seen any other like it, for sale or installed architecturally. I haven't tried to research it, 'cause I don't know what to call it. What may be the name of the Celtic(?) pattern?</p><p>Can any of you glassies shed some 'light' on either of them?</p><p>Thanks for lookin'!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445684[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445685[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445686[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445688[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445689[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9488738, member: 76316"]The blue one is 5 1/2" X ~5 3/16", an' maybe 5/16" to 3/8" thick near the center. The pattern is all on the side facing you inna 1st pic; it's flat onna backside, 2nd pic. The purple one is ~4" X ~4", ~1/4" thick. The decorative pattern, which shows best in the 5th pic, is facing you in the 4th pic; the 'lens' is on the backside, pic 5 & 6. Neither tile is UV reactive. On a sailboat, I think the purple one would be called a deck light, or something similar...it would be maybe 3/4" thick, though, to allow plenty of strength. The 'lens' is a series of saw-tooth ridges having the most vertical facet toward my hand, on the left...so apparently meant to direct light in a specific direction. I've had them both for perhaps 25 years...they came together, with a third that sadly got broken almost immediately...sigh. I can imagine the blue one incorporated in a leaded or copper-foil panel, as simply decorative. But the other, with that saw-tooth lens...is a puzzle. I've never seen any other like it, for sale or installed architecturally. I haven't tried to research it, 'cause I don't know what to call it. What may be the name of the Celtic(?) pattern? Can any of you glassies shed some 'light' on either of them? Thanks for lookin'! [ATTACH=full]445684[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445685[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445686[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445688[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445689[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]445690[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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