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This one is nuts!

Marble King, pretty colors 😊

Found with Tiger Eyes.

Antique store find today in this bag. 3/4” to boot! Booth also offered 15% ofF Needed something good to happen today!

Got lots of lines in this one 1 1/8 in

Ultimate Japanese transitional score from the Seattle marble show!!!

I purchased a huge bowl of marbles from an online auction and picked them up this morning. Wow! The Bowl was huge ( high 100's) and filled with marbles like these. What do you think?

This is an article from " Glass World " magazine, 1932 Nov. issue. It describes "Naoyuki Seike's glass marbles" (硝子マーブル　清家直行) were viewed by the emperor at Osaka Prefectural Trade Hall on 15 Nov. 1932.　"天覧硝子製品"　means glass products which were viewed by the emperor.

Just acquired this mib in a lot . took it into the sun for some pics Has an a crazy base glass like opal with some blue tint or something the cork I thought was black but it is dark dark purple . I got some shots of the blue tint it is crazy it's like 2 marbles when the light shines through the blue.

Any ID on this one? Peltier maybe?

Hi Aidan, the marble was a good buy! I'm happy for you.😃 Japanese marble collectors would immediately rush to the marble if it is at only 10 dollars. Normally they cost 5 times more... The marble in question is a lampworked marble which was probably made in Osaka. The glass is almost seedless and the color is good. The lampworker used glass rods which were supplied by a glass maker specializing in making rods and cullet for other fields of glass industry. The time period is late Meiji, Taisho or early Showa. Childhood labor was common at that time. They were made before the coming of transitionals and machine mades. To name the makers who made lamp-worked marbles for export at that time, they were Tokujiro Oi (Osaka), Wakamatsu Yoneda (Osaka) and Hanshichi Kamei (Kyoto). Domination of Japanese marbles in Asian countries continued until 1954 when Hong Kong started marble production.

Odd one

My interest in Duck Marbles started from the brochures illustrated in “Marbles/Biidama” (2003) by Yukoh Morito, a well-known marble collector in my country who passed away in 2016. In 1992 he founded Japan Marble Association, making a partnership with this forum and Marble Collectors Society of America in the following year. His book “Marbles” features a Japanese marble history section for two pages. On page 29 is where we find the brochures of Nippon Special Glass Ball Mfg. Co. Ltd.. The company’s brand was Duck Marbles. According to the brochures, the company started its business in Hanaten, Osaka city in 1924. The founder, Naoyuki SEIKE, says he and his team of college graduated engineers invented a semi-automatic manufacturing process for marble making at that time. He also refers to American invention of marble machines in 1900 ca.. The brochure in Japanese was printed in 1951, whereas the English version was published in 1952. He had obtained more than 20 patents and utility model rights from Japan Patent Office. The monthly marble production reached 50,000,000 in 1952. (but the monthly production in 1951 was 400,000.) The original brochures were contributed by Seishin Seike, the second son of Naoyuki Seike, to the book. The surname Seike is nothing like Suzuki (mine). Also the first name Seishin is very uncommon. I saw a light of hope in this fact and started a search for the contact information of the same name person. I reached his wife Reiko (85), in Hirakata city, Osaka on 7 Dec. 2021. Below is what I learned from the lady on the phone. Naoyuki Seike, her father-in-law, ran a marble factory in Hanaten and that he made marbles was true. But it was a long time before her marriage that Naoyuki's business had ended and went bankruptcy. Reiko married to Seishin in 1960, a union arranged by her senior brother who worked as a surgeon in Maizuru, Kyoto. Seishin was the second son of Naoyuki. When they met, Seishin was not young (30). He had already been working for Zojirushi Magic Pot company in Hanaten as an engineer, where he led his team to a success of the first electric rice cooker. After 3 years of their marriage, in 1963, Naoyuki passed away at the age over 90. Before his death each of his children was given a bucketful of glass marbles he had kept. His 3 boys were all engineers including one who died very early in his late teens or 20’s. He was the first son who died in an accident where he fell from the marble factory’s roof during a repair. Sadly, Seishin passed away more than 10 years ago. Reiko kept the bucket since then. She assured that the marbles she had now in her apartment were originally inherited from her father-in-law. She washed the marbles and sent half the bucket to me. I opened a box full of marbles at night on 10 Dec.

Last bunch

Congratulations, that's a great group!

I think it's a sloppy Akro Auger - maybe "lazy" is a better word . . .

With Oxblood

Seike's cat’s eyes in different colors. . The yellow is like neon yellow. I enjoyed taking pictures of white-purple variants. I was fascinated by the shifts of colors. Some fracture. Bigger vanes always have the risk, when the colors are not compatible enough. I guess no marble makers put them in an oven for annealing.

Marbles with orange vanes. Some ribbed vanes count 12. A group of three. A combination of thick vanes (opaque orange) and wispy structure (transparent orange). Another group of 6 marbles in orange. Some got tinted base glass. One big vane in the center. One submerged ribbon. One marble has a big spidery cutline. Others got smooth ones which are not noticeable.

Here is what the online auction photo looked like and the photo I posted was after organizing them. I was worried I bid too high until I picked them up and the bowl was big.

I think these will work for Swirly Saturday . . .

It's the best day of the week! 1. 5/8" Just some great eyelashes, if I could get a better camera and lens, I might be able to show the microscopic bubbles making up these eyelashes. 2. 21/32" Carnelian colors but a corkscrew 3. 5/8" The widest, but thinnest surface Brown corkscrew on Yellow

Size is ⅝" not sure on it

Some sweet Alligator Eyes I was lucky enough to buy last year.

Marbles and stuffed animals Lucky we had a magic frog and a magic well 😉👍🏻

Every time we putted a stuffed animal on the crown of the frogg when he was away....magic 😃 A magic frogg Just say the words abbracadabra 😃 Full bag when he goes home again 🍀

Here are a couple of good Akros from brother Billy's archive . . .

Few new Akro’s this week. Maybe the 2nd Crow for our collection.

Thinking of the time and my culture, the viewing was really something. Seike must have been very honored with it!

Boo Yah !!! Oh Yes, it is, and this ribbon pattern sets it apart from common Sunsets. The ribbons are condescended into one ribbon that contains 2-3 colors. Common Rainbos have ribbons that are each one separate color and aren't as tight as these. The little Horse Hair ribbon really sets this one apart. As a PeltHead. This is a Top Shelf Rainbo with lots of Tiny Bubbles.🔥

Does anyone know what this one is? it's larger than the other marbles in the bag I got and has an interesting design.

Man! That's pretty impressive that the glass products were viewed by the emperor himself! Not that any marbles don't have history, but Japanese transitionals seem to have some particularly impressive history. 🙂

In a bag I got from Goodwill there are multiple of these red and white, and blue and white marbles. They aren't corkscrew, I think they are ribbon and patch?

That's a lot of glass! Perfect day for getting some fresh air

Thank you so much for cracking the code of Japanese marble making for us.

The Seller wrapped these in the brown paper. I just thought it was kinda cool 🔥 RAR

A wonky Blue on Blue 11/16"

11/16. Thoughts on maker? Akro that didn’t cork?

ID on this one Facenating fellow UV reactive and backlighted it First 3 pictures is the one for ID The rest are nice mint Veiligglas Opaque and Wirepull Enjoy the pictures Comments welcome 🤹‍♂️ Thanks

Cobra

Clean it w fine steel wool, the rust stains will come off. it may take some elbow grease

Stuff I got from the Canton marble show last weekend.

A 1" Cat with metallic and a Brushed Patch with Oxblood.

Nice Brush Patch

Size is ⅝" sorta has the Christmas colors but idk if it is a Christmas tree

Whose ear is that in pic 5 🔥 RAR

I assume it's a conqueror ⅝" never seen one like it

....and our little collection of oxbloods.

Here's a lot of these that sold March 2025 for $55 on a FB group. For the nicer ones I would pay $20 each for sure.