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<p>[QUOTE="UncleChuckTX, post: 220641, member: 154"]You're welcome!</p><p><br /></p><p>And about the slight blue color you mentioned - I've seen that before on pieces of this color glass. I think / guess that it's a heat issue from the production process. Either they have to reheat the glass to turn a blue base color into the jade green, or the jade green is the base color which turns blue if they heat it too much. They didn't heat your piece evenly to produce a uniform color, in other words. Same concept as how they reheat areas of certain amber /yellow glass formulas to turn them red & orange to create the modern "amberina" color...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="UncleChuckTX, post: 220641, member: 154"]You're welcome! And about the slight blue color you mentioned - I've seen that before on pieces of this color glass. I think / guess that it's a heat issue from the production process. Either they have to reheat the glass to turn a blue base color into the jade green, or the jade green is the base color which turns blue if they heat it too much. They didn't heat your piece evenly to produce a uniform color, in other words. Same concept as how they reheat areas of certain amber /yellow glass formulas to turn them red & orange to create the modern "amberina" color...[/QUOTE]
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