Published: February 11, 2022 – Friday
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Full XRF test results for the dish pictured
Small cut glass dish
120-second test
- Lead (Pb): non-detect (less than 3 ppm)
- Cadmium (Cd): 3 +/- 1 ppm (safe by all standards)
- Mercury (Hg): non-detect (less than 4 ppm)
- Bromine (Br): 10 +/- 1 ppm
- Chromium (Cr): non-detect (less than 106 ppm)
- Iron (Fe): 95 +/- 26 ppm
- Copper (Cu): 32 +/- 7 ppm
- Zinc (Zn): 12 +/- 3 ppm
- Antimony (Sb): 29 +/- 3 ppm
- Barium (Ba): 137 +/- 8 ppm
- No other metals detected in consumer goods mode!
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This looks like the Sandwich pattern by Indiana Glass Company.
I agree that it looks like the Sandwich pattern by Indiana Glass Company. Indiana’s Sandwich comes in many colors because Indiana sold it in a rainbow of colors through their Tiara party plan in the 1970s and 1980s. Tiara’s Sandwich was mostly the same pattern that Indiana sold originally in the late 1920s and 1930s. Indiana’s Sandwich is pretty, with graceful long scrolls between simple flowers.
It’s impossible for us to know whether it is original Indiana or new (Tiara) Indiana and if the older pattern is also good to use. Hopefully Anchor Hocking Sandwich is also okay to use, since that is my predominate pattern. I bought mine in the early 70s at an estate sale, so I assume it is older, but I don’t know.