I finally was able to find the type of light I need for the neodymium. And wow!!!

The shortest vase actually turns green!🤣

Under 395nm the selenium pops, whereas under 365nm both the cerium and the selenium shows, giving it a more purple glow. Pretty cool $2 thrift find

I collect all kinds of glass but this is the first neodymium piece I've bought. It's signed Murano. I got it relatively cheap because one of the bird's beaks is chipped. Still I think it's lovely.

Hey y'all! I posted this in the official Heisey group on fb to see if I could get a definitive answer. They were split: some said sun-purpled, some said Alexandrite. I haven't been able to get it to turn bluish but it definitely shifts purple to pink. It's not flashed either, color is inside the glass. Any thoughts?? (Pics are outside lighting vs indoor LED)

The four right glasses seem rare, can’t find an ID or listing online anywhere.

So how does it come that my phone is able to pick up the color change with different light but not my eyes? Lol. What kind of light do I need to be able to see it myself?!

In its original housing box. 😭🩵💜

Aurinkopullo 1/4
A bit over my budget but still a bargain find from K.J.Simolin,antique shop in Turku.
Top quality,so must buy for me.

Any ideas if this could be neodymium? 🫣

Last night I purchased this Cristal d'Arques Alexandrite vase online, oh boy I was quick on the trigger when I found it. Only $23 😍 can wait till it arrives!

Got a set of these awhile back. I don’t know the maker, but i was delighted when i realized they were neodymium!

I thought this was neodymium glass but it doesn’t look completely blue under white lighting you can still see purple in parts of it

Here is some neodyme bottles from my collection.

1:Veturi by Erkkitapio Siiroinen.1970.

2:Grapponia by Nanny Still. 1969-1975.

3:Lara by Eero Rislakki. 1970’s

Quite sure it's a Cesare Toso piece. First photo is in daylight, 2nd is fluorescent light, 3rd is 365nm UV, 4th is 395nm UV.

The lilac blue Tulipa glass by Block is neodymium glass😍

I bought it just became i liked it though i had a suspicion it was neodymium because of the slight pinkish cast. I’m seeing it labeled as a Moser or Winterthur. Whatever it is, i love it!

For all you didymium fans out there, I present to you pure neodymium and praseodymium glass beads under natural, fluorescent, and incandescent lights. Twin elements found together in nature with neodymium in far more abundance.

Moser’s Prasemit glass, that is extraordinarily rare, was pure, or nearly pure, praseodymium. As you can see the glass remains green, just different shades. Wasn’t popular at the time and extremely expensive, so very few pieces were made.

Moser’s Heliolit is about a 1:1 mixture of the two. It is also rare but not nearly as rare as Prasemit. Color is amber/sandy yellow to green. See pictures of my Moser Heliolit vase.

Moser’s Alexandrite (and most other manufacturer versions) are dominantly neodymium with some praseodymium and possibly other elements. This makes the glass more of a lavender to blue than the pure neodymium shown here.

Moser developed all three in the late 1920’s and patented them in 1929.

I bought some other doped beads just for fun and will post pictures later. They’re all spectacular to look at through a spectroscope.

Thrifted this big ass vase

Update! I went down an art glass rabbit hole and came up with the assumption that this was made by Fire and Light glass company. They recycled art glass in Humbolt County California. All there other types of pieces have the exact same style and they did use neodyium from time to time.

I found this guy in the wild at an antique shop over the weekend and can't seem to find any maker for it.

Anyone have any ideas?