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To: jay1949

Fiestaware:

“The government needed the Uranium that was used to make the red glaze during World War Two, so red was given up for the war effort, until March of 1959, when you could once again purchase uranium oxide in the hills of West Virginia.”

http://www.happyheidi.com/antiques/history_of_fiesta.html


2 posted on 05/11/2010 7:17:54 AM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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To: muawiyah; JoeProBono; SunkenCiv

Were actual dishes and cups ever made from this?


3 posted on 05/11/2010 7:20:59 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: bgill

Was RED Fiestaware ever actually radioactive???


4 posted on 05/11/2010 7:22:41 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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