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Just curious if anyone else here collects vintage Fiestaware. If so, i'd like to know if you found any unusual or unique pieces. I just acquired the bowl (pictured below) which is an exceptionally hot piece. Smokin! Its an original pre-1940's piece.
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I was at Macy's the other day and I saw Fiestaware and I thought... wow, I thought they stopped making those. I don't have any old pieces - just the Thorium on my CDV-700.
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Part Scavenger wrote ...
Yeah, isn't red one of the really hard to find colors IIRC? My parents used to watch that collectible TV stuff all the time.
Red isn't hard to find. The original orange-red pieces (pre-1940) are the most "hot" items (like the one item posted above) as they use pure uranium oxide in them. From 1944 to 1958, they were discontinued since the US government had a shortage of uranium for their reactors / bombs. Radiactive fiestaware was made again from 1959 to 1969, but this time using an "de-enriched" uranium which the fissionable isotope, Uranium 235 was removed. After 1969, uranium was no longer used and another substance was used - so anything manufactured after 1969 is not radioactive.
The bowl shown above reads about 4-5 mR/hour so its exceptionally hot compared to most similar fiestaware pieces. However, these are still considered harmless, and the lead glaze is actually more harmful.
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Where do you guys find those things? I've had my eyes peeled for months and haven't found anything radioactive at all. Can't really call me a collector, I have nothing in my collection.
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Just check EBAY. They have TONs of Fiestaware. Just search for VINTAGE Fiestaware.
IMPORTANT: The most radiactive items are the ones made prior to 1940. Note that the label on the bottom should NOT read genuine. If the genuine label is present, it means the fiestaware was manufactured after 1940.
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Anyone else collect Fiestaware??
