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Bowl, Colored Glass, Coloured Glass, Line 100, Opalescent Glass, Ring, Ringed, Rings, Topaz Glass, Vaseline Glass, Yellow Glass
This little bowl has a very pretty colour. I don’t know Fenton’s colour chart at all, but my understanding that this is their colour Topaz. I have this great book – Colors & Patterns of Depression Era Glassware by Doris Yeske & Lyle Fokken – which refers to Fostoria’s ‘yellow’ glass being called ‘Topaz’.
In fact, Fenton is a company that is not well represented in my collections, or purchases. Don’t know why. I tend to lean toward Heisey, Cambridge or Fostoria glass lines and etches.
The brightness of the colour, and the opalescence around the rim caught my eye. However the pattern is pretty too. The photos may not show this well – but there are rings in the glass. I don’t know if the pattern was named “Ring’ or ‘Rings’ or ‘Ringed’ by Fenton but I see online that it is often referred to by one of those names.
This piece does glow brightly under a blacklight. These bright green pieces are often referred to as Vaseline glass.
The Encyclopedia of Glass by Mark Pickvet defines ‘Vaseline Glass’ as follows (p. 269):
“Glass made with a small amount of uranium oxide (usually 1-2%) that imparts a light greenish-yellow color……Vaseline glass was first made by the Romans; however it was not used in glass production in any quantity until the mid-nineteenth century. The term ‘Vaseline’ was not used until about 1937. Note 
that the English usually refer to Vaseline glass as ‘Lemonescent’ while it has also been called canary, yellow, uranium, topaz, magic, Canaria, Chameleon, Anna Yelloow, Annagrun, and Lenora Green.’
