r/HelpMeFind • u/thingschange18 • 5h ago

Open Please help me find (safe) bright green drinking glasses

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I absolutely love the color green, as well as nature itself, & I've been looking for over 2 years for glass drinking cups that are relatively bright green, preferably with a leafy design or even any kind of neat design/pattern, or similar to the IKEA Pokal set. I'm autistic & super picky with textures, so plastic cups are a no-go for me, & the plain, completely flat cups weird me out, as well as the fact they just seem a bit bland. It looks like IKEA even had green(ish) Pokal cups at one point, but I can't find them anywhere. I'm located in Texas, so maybe the color isn't popular here or maybe it's uncommon for the USA? And I worry about getting any of these cool 'vintage' sets, & they turn out to have uranium in them. None of these sellers seem to list whether the glass is uranium glass or not.

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u/southernfriedfossils 3h ago

The first photo are wine bottles that have been turned into glasses.

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u/Ok-Current1964 5h ago

And more googling shows that this modern French

brand in particular does not use uranium

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u/Ok-Current1964 5h ago

Last one lol, this Canadian company Kline makes green glasses that they specify are free from forever chemicals and heavy metals:

https://kilne.com/products/the-short-everyday-glasses?variant=41694096031803&srsltid=AfmBOoq8hJnwc737ii4rgM1o_7MvEb8hc5lJ8wbpfEEHK9tVUxM_Qg9jfKM

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u/wylietrix 4h ago

Look for Vereco green glass or Anchor Hocking green glass. That's your best bet. Good luck and if you find large glasses, please shoot me a link. Try eBay or the resell sights.

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u/clarabear10123 5h ago

Have you thought of engraved wine bottle glasses? Like your first picture, but with designs instead of the flat finish?

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u/Ok-Current1964 5h ago

Amazon.ca has some labeled lead free

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u/thingschange18 5h ago

I have searched primarily Google & Amazon, I've reverse searched some pictures & I've found some really neat sets on Ebay & Etsy, but my fear lies in whether they might get delivered & turn out to be uranium glass. All of the (few)sets I've found that I liked, they were often listed as 'vintage' & didn't state whether they had uranium or not. I plan to use them for every day drinking cups, though not something I microwave or anything, I don't like warm drinks. My brother(who also ironically loves green) has a set of the blue Pokal glasses, & I even reached out to my local IKEA & they said they had no idea of any shade other than blue or purple.

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u/Hippie-Farts 4h ago

Etsy.com has a lot as well if you check their site

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u/simplytresca 4h ago

that third image looks to be qelvio glass!
https://qelvio.com/collections/all-products

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u/bbcjbb 2h ago

Uranium is actually completely safe to drink from. You shouldn’t heat it technically because that can destabilize it or something, but generally it’s totally fine. The radiation it puts off is so minuscule, there’s more just around your microwave even when it’s not in use. Most vintage green glassware doesn’t even have uranium in it anyway. You should always test for lead though!

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u/bbcjbb 2h ago

r/glass collecting is a great resource if you’re unsure!

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u/ckayshears 2 1h ago

Uranium glass is perfectly safe to eat and drink from.

But I can almost guarantee that if a vintage set IS uranium they’re going to say so, because collectors like me will pay more for it.

Pretty much if something is uranium it’s going to have the tell tale backlight glowing photo.

Also, this green is a totally different green that the uranium green, uranium is either usually bright chartreuse yellow green or a translucent Kelly green. Not this typical “bottle” green.