Bidspirit auction | Antique Baccarat Uranium Cut Glass

Antique Baccarat Uranium Cut Glass Box - Baccarat logo on the bottom of the box.    Dimensions: 2 1/2” x 4” x 2 3/4”    Condition: Tarnishing to the silver elements. Residue around the silver bevel shows evidence of previous repairs to the lid of the box. See images for details.    About: Baccarat was founded in Lorraine in 1764 but made window glass and tableware for its first fifty years; it became a crystal house in 1816, when Aimé-Gabriel d'Artigues converted the works to lead crystal using English methods, and a service ordered by Charles X in 1828 began the royal commissions that still define the name. Baccarat made uranium-colored opaline in the nineteenth century, known in France as ouraline; it reads yellow-green and fluoresces under ultraviolet light.