From Glass?

[GotTheBug]

Found this link, thought it was interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry_glass

 

[BJL1984]

very intresting, I have a few pieces like that around the house, never thought to research how they were made, I always just thought they were plain old antiques, I wounder can the gold be recovered, not that i would ever break them apart to do so, but its somethign to think about

 

[GotTheBug]

As far as I have been able to determine, they use monoatomic gold, so it would seem the good old microwave technique may work. Haven't tried it yet, but soon.

 

[nickvc]

The amount of gold recovered wouldn't cover the costs and the items would sell for much more than their metal values so my advice is e bay them and buy decent material to process.