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George Williams, also West Virginian, now deceased might have made the above marble that Galen showed. He was making marbles during the 80's. He and Bob Hamon, Charles Gibson, and Dave McCullough were friends and spent a lot of time together "playing with glass".

A Hamon family marble would have two pontils. Both ends are finished with a twist. The one shown above has an open "pontil". It was fire polished to smooth it off without pulling the colors together and twisting it closed. It has two pontils. The open one was attached to the punty first. The twisted end was completed first. Hamon family and also Eddie Seese then attach to another punty at the twisted end and the open end is reheated, then finished with a twist The first twisted end is then broken off the punty rod and fire polished to melt in the crystal clear glass. It takes a little longer to twist both ends, but the effect is much nicer. Charles Gibson never finished the open end. Jim Davis never did either. Occasionally the Davis sons do finished the open end pontil.

I would ask a lot of questions.

I have never seen a Robert Hamon marble that looked like this. I don't think he made marbles in the 40's. He was in the service and came back after WWII. The family moved from Oklahoma back to Scott Depot at Robert Hamon's request. They had a family business and did production work until Bob opened his Glass Studio in the late 80's. I think you shoud consult with his brother in law Sonny Miller on this marble. He will know if Bob ever made this type for sure. I would not buy that marble as a Hamon unless Sonny identified it and vouched for it's authenticity and I don't turn down Hamon marbles.

That is definitely a furnace marble and it will always have 2 pontils.

If it were Jim Davis or Charles Gibson, the second pontil would be open like the Jim Davis marble below. Maybe that's why they are not showing the other pontil.

Bob Hamon work

That twisted pontil looks very "Hamon" to me.

It looks WV furnace made to me. The thing that makes me not positive is the color of the clear glass. Bob Hamon, Charles Gibson, Jim Davis and all his sons would have that marble in crystal clear glass. may be that the light is not good. It looks WV to me.

It was a very good time! Bobby is planning another one.

Pretty marbles, Mr. Block. I don't think any Robert Brown's ever got down this far.

The marble in my avatar is a 3 inch Robert L. Hamon. Ronnie, I think the marbles in your post are early ones. I didn't discover Bob Hamon until 1992. His work was greatly changed by then. He had opened an art glass studio. Before the shop was his, everything had to be functional - bowls, vases, perfumes, etc. His Dad's generation thought art glass was unnecessary. Bob's dad had 2 brothers and they didn't do art glass either. Joe Hamon, a cousin did a little, but had the parents attitude about art glass. Bob Hamon's father was O.B. Hamon (Okie Boyd) His brother O.C. Hamon was the father of Joe Hamon. Joe has a son and a daughter that learned glass. The daughter, Cheryl Hamon Jackson still works glass. I have marbles she made and a couple pairs of earrings. Pretty!

Scott, I think of them with a great sadness in my heart.

I see you did get some Marble Buddies.

Robert Lee Hamon was a second generation glass artist. He was located in Scott Depot, West Virginia. We lost him nearly 10 years ago. He was the greatesty at hand made marbles - furnace marbles. I have a bunch of his work.

Nice marbles!

If it's your popeye marble, you call it anything you want to. LOL

Thank you Scott. Are you doing any glass work?

I agree with Scott.

On my 3rd wooden box, I did close of pics of the marbles.

I kept 3 of the wooden boxes and Joseph kept 3 with the liners in. His wooden boxes have only marbles with lutz. He also kept 5 paper boxes. My favorite boxes has a lot of "pinks" in it.

I used jewelry boxes for the marbles. I put pictures from the run on the box top. I also kept 3 of the wooden boxes filled with keepers. I take the marble holders out and use the whole box to hold more marbles. The picture is my grandson, Joseph. He went to the run on his spring break. That's David Griffie in the pic too. Griff invented the tool that Joseph is using to sprinkle lutz on the marbles, and he taught Joseph how to sprinkle.

I kept 8 paper boxes of Spring Edition