If anyone is interested, I placed a Geiger counter on this piece to see what sort of readings I received from the radium paint
I will post a video when I work out how!
If anyone is interested, I placed a Geiger counter on this piece to see what sort of readings I received from the radium paint
I will post a video when I work out how!
This is brilliant solid info and finally puts to bed this issue. Well done!
Cheers, Ade.
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Thank you Adrian.
The gentleman that helped me with the test is a university lecturer in radiography. He suggested that displaying the gorget in a perspex display case would even further reduce the minimal level of alpha rays emmited
Mine does too!by Adrian Stevenson
Crikey!!!Mine does too!
'I do not think we can hope for any better thing now.
We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course, and the end cannot be far.
It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. R. SCOTT.
Last Entry - For God's sake look after our people.'
In memory of Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Lawrence Oates and Edgar Evans. South Pole Expedition, 30th March 1912.
Great piece, some of the cloth backed versions were faked in the 70's I feel pretty safe with the late war cardboard backing ones, the warning with the paint was not to inhale or ingest any particles, I would believe you are safe displaying it out in the open with such low levels, second hand smoke would probably kill you first lol. Great video and a first in the study of these. Now I just have to find one thats cheap enough for me.
Good luck with that, $800 and up seems to be the going rate these days.
Oh yes I am well aware of the prices!! I saw a mint cardboard back version at a show the dealer wanted 900, if he would have said 800 I probably would have bought it.Good luck with that, $800 and up seems to be the going rate these days.
I would have plumped the extra $100 and grabbed it!Especially if mint.
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