akronmarbles

I appreciate it. I am looking forward to making a few more marbles this Saturday.....

Pretty cullet. I have never played with marble company cullet and have no plans to start doing so. For one thing I would rather work with glass that I know the expansion rate of and it is way more interesting to batch my own colors. Attached is a pic of a chalcedony glass marble that I made awhile back. This is only one color of glass. It comes out of my furnace like this. This stuff is magical to work with.

A marble machine only makes glass into balls. A gob feeder is what patterns glass. I do not have a feeder.

It was amazing when I first turned it on. I could watch it run for hours. It is a beautiful machine. It is killing me that I will not be able to work with it again till next Saturday. A little more cleaning and it will make perfect marbles.

One more....this is also a feast for the ears and eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE

NSFW - great noise and visuals.

https://vimeo.com/15247292

What Galen said!

Volume 18 - No 7 - Pg 14 - 1927.

The forming rolls should be good to go. The machine also includes the original W.J. Miller pneumatic gob shear. It has been altered to be foot activated. I will probably not be able to make much progress till after school is out in May....

This is on its way to Ohio land......soon to be making some hand gathered beauties!

A few more images...

Process:

Clear glass was gathered - swirling is evident in the previous images.

Token is picked up on end of gather

Token is gathered over on the end - this trapped quite a bit of air - see pics.

Marble rounded off.

Marble finished off with a patented JHL pontil.

Here are the images of the marble - the way the center token is produced and the ghosting of the image conveys to me that it was made with little thought - this was the expediency factor I alluded to before - whoever made the token was making multiples of them and not really thinking about it. This is the vibe it gives my archaeologist eyes. Maybe my words are not the best, but the item displays a sort of lackadaisical look to me....any how...here are the pontil pics ...I do not believe an item like this would be difficult to make.

I couldn't say for sure either who initiated the making of the item - same statement would hold true for the ceramic political jugs Sam Dyke started making in 1884. 1000's of these were produced for both Republican and Democratic candidates in 1884, 1888, and 1892.

I have some real nice images of this marble on my shop computer - will try to remember to share some Saturday when I am there. The marble was hard to photograph - the focal point/ plane was difficult to capture due to lack of surface features. I was fortunate to have examined the marble in hand for well over an hour. I have no doubt that it is an age appropriate piece.

This is the Standard Toy Marble Company.

The pieces of uranium glass were found in 2008 at MFC - long after the book was originally published. They were from inside of the glass furnace foundation. From what was found I would refer to it as a test batch. I do also have some uranium glass from Barberton as Craig alluded to and still have a "horizontal" vaseline slag from Barberton - melted pontil.

I found a few pieces of uranium glass in the MFC factory building - including a few marble pieces. They made at least one melt.

Nikkon refers to their macro lenses as 'micro'. I love my old Nikkor 200mm on my D3200. Shooting manual is the way to go.

She's using your nice CA's right? Cute pic!

Also interested in more pics of your marble...

Is available....

Found this bag. 12 marbled which I am guessing are around 7/8".

Value?

Faceted pontil...

application date
February 25, 1929

registration date
April 9, 1929

the name of the person (not the company)
安田卯吉 Yasuda(surname) Ukichi(male given name)

the address
大阪府堺市少林寺町西四丁二十六番地
4-26, Shōrinji-chō Nishi, Sakai-shi, Osaka
(present 大阪府堺市堺区少林寺町西 Shōrinji-chō Nishi, Sakai-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka)
The number of the address "4-26" doesn't exist now, probably due to the land readjustment, the rearrangement of the address number or something.

registration date
August 21, 1929

renewal application date
May 20, 1949

renewal registration date
January 26, 1950

the name of the person
安田アイ Yasuda(surname) Ai(female given name)

the address
大阪府南河内郡国分町大字玉手299
299, Tamate, Kokubu-chō, Minami-Kawachi-gun, Osaka
(present 大阪府柏原市 Kashiwara-shi, Osaka)

representative, lawyer
鎌田嘉之
Kamata(surname) Yoshiyuki(male given name)