These and many more real products are collected at the Oak Ridge Associated Universities website. Most date from the era before the toxicity of radium was understood. The mind boggles at the number of human tragedies that must have ensued...
Wikipedia has a brief article about "Undark" - a commercial paint made with radium, offered to the general public as a do-it-yourself, glow-in-the-dark craft product.
Knott's Berry Farm used to have a chapel which presented a phosphorescent Jesus. They also sold the paint. We bought lots of it. Men (mostly) had radium dials on their watches. I couldn't pass a shoe store without looking at the bones in my feet through the ¿fluoroscope? Ah, those were the days!
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