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Contrary to what Galen thinks, and all that he holds dear, I believe that Peltier made some aventurine glass intentionally. I saw no mention of aventurine in Peltier's glass formula notebooks, with all the glass batch results and notes from 1936-1937. I'm pretty sure, though, that if we had the glass formula notebooks from 1928-1934, when they were actually making that black glass with heavy aventurine, that they used in all those zebra types, NLR's, and black patches, there would have been a notation "Wow ! Nice sparkles in that black glass !" They did have quite a few different formulas for black glass, one for ashtrays, several for marbles...I think one was called "special black" that had potassium dichromate, but no mention of aventurine in the notes. Likewise, there was no formula for, or mention of "pearlescent green", but I wager they made that on purpose, too. I would also mention, that of all the aventurine glass I have had experience with over the years, primarily in kilns or over a torch, and just two days at Jabo, only goldstone could do the disappearing trick. I never had problems with any other kind of aventurine disappearing when reheated.

Sounds like a pretty good adventure. Yay !

That's nice, Clyde ! The California gold dollar goes very well with the quartz gold. I have a California gold octagonal quarter dollar from 1876. Teeny and way thin. (#BG778)

sorry Ann....maybe some patches will help....

The banana in that one is more red than pink, but the pale opal base glass makes it appear pinker. The marble to the left of it is the same thing, except the opal base has a green tint. These two marbles look like bananas, otherwise, from this view; but the banana shape goes from the middle of the marble to the marble surface along one edge. They are probably just odd acme realors. Above these two marbles are two pink banana marbles that are fractured, and they are flanked left and right by a light coral and a dark coral banana. Above the two pink ones are a skinny red banana in blue transparent base, and a yellow banana in green transparent base. Sorry....you know how I babble....

The metal pieces would have to be heated at the point of soldering for the solder to flow and adhere properly, but you wouldn't have to heat all of the metal, or much of the glass, except at the soldering area. Done quickly, without lingering, isn't terribly risky. I know this from my experience making copper foiled lampshades and windows for forty years, and only rarely having a piece of glass fracture from the heat. I have also soldered rings with loops on marbles several times to make buttons, with none fracturing. That said, I sure as heck wouldn't attempt doing so on a $3000 sulphide marble, but when they were new, the risk was only a matter of a few cents, don't it ? Anyway, they are marvelous.

Metal can easily be soldered adjacent to glass, with no fracturing of the glass, if done quickly.

a few bananas and some tracers and a copperhead with two of his fractured cousins

Just a simple sunflower shot. I had to stand on my compost pile, and hold my tablet camera as high as possible over my head to get it, though.

I have a green one that I like...

Unfortunately, I don't have scans of all the correspondence, but as I almost remember, I think Sellers Peltier, or maybe his son, visited the marble factory in Japan in 1953, and the detailed sketches, drawn immediately after the factory tour, were on stationery from a hotel in Kyoto.

I don't know why, but I was thinking, maybe you had to be ball-headed for that to work. I guess not.

Please don't milk this dead horse, Rich.

The smooth, white wafer-hats on the adults are pretty snazzy, too.

Me too.... photos by my niece, Cassie, in her back yard...

I would never presume to speak for mon, but I would suggest the possibility that he don't give a rat's patootie what you think of his marble knowledge, and perhorps sees no reason to show you anything.

Just because it's orange, that don't make it a citrus, do it ?

He looks a lot like Catfish Derrick at that age....

(sniffle....sob...whimper...)

I wasn't weeping...they kinda gave me a brain boner, though.... so thanks for that...

"Or was it the shoreline question" I can't tell....was that a question ?

and I haven't attempted to mount a female horse for years....

I know Lloyd, and I'd say it's more like a dog and his boy. Hey Fritzie....Shultzie says Hello... and Lloyd, short beard or long, you're way hecka cuter than me, you know....

Firstly, I'd like to mention that I think big beards are ridiculous, and they look funny. Mine might be bigger by a whisker or two. Standing up and looking straight ahead, with a yardstick under my chin, my beard goes down about one inch below my belly button, about twenty inches. Holding my moustache up along the yardstick, straight out to the left and to the right, it has a 24 inch stache-span. The pony tail thingy is barely 22 inches.

While I can't say with absolute certainty, the Peltier records do strongly suggest that Sellers Peltier approached Gropper for advise and suggestions on the prospect of making marbles in 1924, as opposed to Gropper first approaching Peltier. Gropper recommended the hiring of Arnold Fiedler as their marble making foreman and teacher.