Post #349064 by captnkirk on Wed, Dec 12, 2007 4:19 AM

Here is a neat collection of old absinthe glasses that were made of Uranium glass.
http://www.oxygenee.com/absinthe/absinthiana3.html

Why are you looking specifically for glass without lead? Is it for safety reasons? If so, Absinthe and most other alcoholic beverages are not capable of extracting lead from a crystal glass in the short time it should be in it. I would avoid storing an acidic beverage like lemonade for a long time in a lead glass pitcher.

Soda-lime glass is far more common (and cheaper) then the lead glass is, so a suitable replacement glass should be inexpensive and easy to find. Look for a footed rocks glass from any glassware outlet and it should make a wonderful lead free absinthe glass.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Image:Rocks_Glass_(Footed).svg

[ Edited by: captnkirk 2007-12-12 04:33 ]