What Geiger Counter?

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I want to go to antique shops looking for Uranium glass. What Geiger Counter is minimal?
There are several "antique" shops near my home. Mostly it's junk people have pulled from their attics and put up for sale. I like to cruise through looking for interesting things. One display had some interesting orange plates. I suspected they were just recent purchases from Wally World (to avoid the brand name) but they just possibly might have been Uranium glazed. Maybe just possibly not necessarily. There were also several glass items of an interesting green color.

What kind of Geiger counter would I need to be able to tell? Prefer something I can keep in my pocket. Would a small blacklight be useful? Or would there be some other simple method to prefer to those? I can handle the items if required since they are just sitting on a shelf.
 

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