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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?

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.

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.🔥

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.

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.

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

Any ideas? Do you like the Dog Hair🔥 RAR

Added one more piece. Do I have them all now? 🤣

I think it's a jabo. I like it.

van Gogh🔥 RAR🤪

I bought a group of marbles on ebay because I thought this one was a corkscrew and thought 'What a weird color combination for Akro!', it tricked me. A cool Vitro Shooter. 15/16"

Richard Gartley and Jeff Carskadden are both academics and their books are written in that style. They have also published quite a few articles in academic journals - mostly about history in Ohio. Together, they authored two of my absolute favorite marble books: Chinas: Hand Painted Marbles of the Late 19th Century (1990) Colonial Period and Early 19th Century Children's Toy Marbles: History and Identification for the Archaeologist and Collector (1998). Each has a great reference section, and I have also enjoyed reading many of the resources they cite. I highly recommend both books, although some folks might find the academic style off-putting.

Re-posting one of my favorite marbles of all time here. It's kinda crazy to think that its around 200 years old. Naturally colored yellow limestone, likely from Sonneberg-Coburg area, early 19th century. Described by Gartley and Carskadden in 'Colonial Period and Early 19th Century Children's Toy Marbles: History and Identification for the Archaeologist and Collector', p. 105. (Photo, Figure 53, p. 100)

Throwing up Bricks on this NCAA Sunday.

Well, Jess, add three or four more companies and you've got yourself an Ebay listing!

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.

I was going through my marbles this morning, looking for slags and swirls for today and found this!! I have no idea how long I've had it, it was in with my 'others' box 😆 I bet we've all got one of those 'others' boxes 11/16"

I bid on 55 marble lots and only won 3 but I am glad. I was lacking these Marble King Rainbows in my collection and they may be quite common but they have a certain nostalgic value for me. These were the kind in my bag, the Vitro's too and the rest that I played with were cats eyes. I can't wait til I get my shipping bill and pay for them. I think I did OK and many of the lots I passed on went quite high. This hobby is very alive and well. Total marbles on the way soon comes to just over 800! woo hoo!

I'm looking at a CAC too I believe...

If the seam goes completely around the circumference - yes.

Very nice! Going through them is always a lot of fun. You did well.

I'm thinking it's a Peltier Rainbow. There was a bubble just beneath the surface and the glass covering it shattered. That's why the bottom/sides of the hole is smooth and the upper/surface edges are rough. These are often referred to as "blowouts". A "bubble pop" would be smooth all around.

Tommy's posting up some outstanding marbles today!

Good call on the color blend - you got it!

I had 3 of these with the same color combo. Does anyone have these with a different colored base glass🔥 RAR

St Marys Alley. White ribbons in another base color? Sure, millions of them.

Whose ear is that in pic 5 🔥 RAR

Vitro Tri-Lite

It’s a Vitro 🔥 RAR

Thanks for the kind words! My username doesn’t actually mean anything specific—it’s just a combination of my first cat’s name and my own. Glad you enjoyed the post❤️

Im pretty sure is a pelt. ⅝"

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. 🙂

A few early Alleys . . .