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Amber Glass Vintage Wine Goblet: Lead-Free, Cadmium-Free, Arsenic-Free!

Amber Glass Vintage Wine Goblet: Lead-Free, Cadmium-Free, Arsenic-Free!

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Every now and then there’s a vintage find that actually doesn’t contain any of “the usual suspects” (5 neurotoxicant metals commonly found in the decorative coatings and/or substrates of so many vintage consumer goods) — Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Arsenic, and Antimony… When tested with an XRF instrument this goblet (pictured here in this post) had…

Curare “Name Your Poison” Vintage Barware Glass: 103,700ppm Lead & 2,834 ppm Cadmium. My great-uncle had these!

Curare “Name Your Poison” Vintage Barware Glass: 103,700ppm Lead & 2,834 ppm Cadmium. My great-uncle had these!

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My grandfather’s sister’s husband had these. We inherited them when my aunt died. I ended up selling them on eBay (long before the kids were poisoned – before I knew anything about lead). It just really brings it home to know that everyone in my family had all of this leaded crap too! When tested…

Arsenic “Name Your Poison” Vintage Barware Glass: 96,700 ppm Lead & 2,378 ppm Cadmium. My uncle had these!

Arsenic “Name Your Poison” Vintage Barware Glass: 96,700 ppm Lead & 2,378 ppm Cadmium. My uncle had these!

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For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Since 2009, Tamara has been using XRF technology (a scientific method used…