Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: rural Indiana - IND
Programs: airline agnostic, Hilton Gold, IHG Plat, Jelly of the Month, DL defector, formerly NWA Plat (RIP)
Posts: 964
When I flew home from Vienna last year with some lead crystal, TSA insisted on removing it from the box and verifying the contents when I went through security after customs.
Their explanation was that the lead crystal just shows as a black shape on the X-ray.