This was the logo stamp for my Grandfather's store (The Home Clothing Company) in San Francisco, c. 1942. I believe he stamped this image on cards and invoices and receipts and those sorts of things using an ink pad.
The image is of a policeman writing a ticket or perhaps a bus or cable car ...
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#Leaded: Made Safe Certified Pura Kiki Baby Bottle Purchased New In January of 2018 (Video)
Published: July 2, 2018
Below is an 8-minute video we made this week of our testing of a new-in-the-box, purchased in 2018, "Made Safe Certified" Pura Kiki stainless steel insulated baby bottle for lead (Pb).
This stainless steel baby bottle is supposed to be Lead-free...
Both the Made Safe ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Hose Nozzle
Vintage hose nozzle: 28,900 ppm lead.
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Tested with an XRF instrument.
All yellow brass hose and gardening components I have tested have been very high lead like this one (and also can have contaminants like mercury and arsenic.)
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Click the word to any corresponding number to see the article with XRF test results for the item pictured below!
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#Leaded: Glazed Ceramic Christmas Stocking Desk Decoration, by TriCoastalDesign.com
Ceramic stocking (desk top decoration) by TriCoastalDesign.com:
Lead: 33,200 +/- 1,300 ppm
Cadmium: 3,258 +/- 249 ppm*
When I test an item like this and find a high Lead level on one color, I don't bother testing each of the additional colors because "that's enough!" I am also ...
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#Leaded: 1963 Hardcover Printing of “Volume 14 of The American Heritage New Illustrated History Of The United States; The Roosevelt Era”
Most vintage books have at least some amount of lead. The amount of lead that is considered toxic in a modern item manufactured and intended to be used by children is 90 ppm or higher in the coating (or paint) and 100 ppm (or higher) in the substrate.
This 1963 printing of "The Roosevelt Era" (a ...
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#Leaded: 1965 Great Detective Stories Hardcover Book
Most vintage books have at least some amount of lead. The amount of lead that is considered toxic in a modern item manufactured and intended to be used by children is 90 ppm or higher in the coating (or paint) and 100 ppm (or higher) in the substrate.
This 1965 printing of "Great Detective ...
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#Leaded: Vintage/Antique Glass Marbles, Yellow and White Swirl
Yellow and White Swirled Glass Vintage Marble: 2,364 ppm Lead!
The amount of lead that is considered toxic in the substrate of a newly manufactured item intended for use by children is anything 100 ppm lead or higher. Tested in 2014 with an XRF instrument. Year of manufacture and brand: ...
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#Leaded: Glass Pokeman Marble, c. 2013
Pokeman Marble. Tested with an XRF instrument in 2013.
Apprx 36,000 ppm lead (on the "painted" design).
The amount of lead considered toxic (and therefore illegal) in a newly manufactured item intended for children (after 2010) is anything with paint or coating testing positive for lead at 90 ppm ...
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#Leaded: Art Project Tile from Portland Public Parks
Art my youngest son Charlie did a few years ago. Tile for this art project provided by Portland Parks (through their summer activity program). 895 ppm lead. Tested with an XRF & Posted, 3/17/2016.
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#Leaded: Vintage Art Deco Ceramic Tile In a San Francisco Middle School Auditorium
This tile was in a San Francisco, California middle school auditorium that I did a presentation at in 2013. It tested positive for lead at 9,391 ppm when tested with an XRF instrument.
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#Leaded: Small Vintage Cut Crystal Goblet / Shot Glass
This small vintage cut crystal goblet was positive for lead at 22,200 +/- 700 ppm when tested with an XRF instrument. There is no mark or maker information available for this piece, although I did confirm that it is vintage. Most leaded crystal is positive for lead at levels closer to 300,000 ppm so ...
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#Leaded: Vintage Fisher Price Motor Boat Toy (c. 1970?)
Vintage Fisher Price Motor Boat Toy.
Tested with an XRF instrument:
Green Plastic
Arsenic (As): 113 +/- 23 ppm
Yellow Plastic
Cadmium (Cd): 1992 +/- 41 ppm
White Plastic
Lead (Pb): 148 +/- 11 ppm
Most plastic vintage Fisher Price toys are positive for some level of lead, cadmium or ...
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#Leaded: Off-White Vintage Faux Pearls, Glass
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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). ...
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