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I'm mike barton, shown actual size below, and I'm partial to Peltiers...

Those are rather pleasant.

If I am not mistaken, these marbles belonged to the California Peltier collector, Bruce Lockhart.

I believe I recognize a few of those fine Peltiers.

It looks like just a very dark red, similar to the red that is used as black by some of the sheet stained glass companies.

If Master Marble Company started in May of 1930, not much, I imagine....

and, of course, the copperhead, top row far right. Oh look....here comes bobandpat....Hi Bob ! Hi Pat !!

The machine for sale on e-bay didn't look like the wheels were grooved, and I don't think a three wheel arrangement would work, just two.

Yeah, so where's the pics already, Stalker ? You don't have to say who the jerk was what sent 'em......

The bottom three rows here are dug examples of burnt christmas trees and burnt rebels, showing how one color is on top of, and often down the middle, of another color.

My deepest apologies, but it works for me....

Hey, I'm even better later than the critter.... Happy the birthday, Duffy.....

Those fine woodies showned above gave me one, for reals.

David's marble is a Peltier copperhead, the kind that inspired me to make my own copperheads. I didn't know of the Marble King ones.

What a great bunch of marbles ! Those early swirly zebras do often have aventurine. All those flamey colored ones sure are hot, yessir.

I don't think I do, but I only recently found out what they were, so I may have some damaged ones somewhere. I'll let you know with pics, if I find any, but I don't remember seeing one.

According to the inventory reports, in 1925 Peltier made onyx, cerise onyx, and agate marbles. The agate marbles required special processes, even beyond the cerise marbles, and a different furnace to make, and consequently they made very few. I believe they had difficulty with the clearish/opal base glass. In the inventories for 1926 and 1927 they were referred to as prima agates, primas, or prima marbles. I'm not certain, but I believe the yellow box was used in 1925 and 1926. The similar-looking marbles on the monument that Galen shows were a more opaque white, I think, and later than the Primas in the yellow box above.

Yes, like those, thanks Stephanie. There was some posted in my prima agate thread a few months ago, but I couldn't find it.

No, those are honey onyx, not prima agates, nonirregardless what the box says.

Sure looks all Peltier, with a row of their prima agates..... I wouldn't be too surprised if CAC's look the same, though.

I'm afraid I'd have to agree with Bill. It's a brown sheep of the same family. I think there are red tracer types, too, on the usual tracer base.

I'm blaming Boyce. My feets still hurt from going up that ladder so many times.

Dave went up the ladder only once during our two day run, and put the glass in the wrong funnel, likely making our best marbles. (This is my supposition, anyways, based on the Dave-hype.)

Edna, your post isn't gone, it's at the end of the post above that Stephanie linked to. Boyce's run was right before this Tribute run. We had five different base glasses, and over fifty side colors. The first day we went from clear to a white opalescent base, and the next day we transitioned from yellow to orange to red base. I was the glass mixer and funnel man, but we were going for simplicity, and didn't have so many colors all at once on a marble. We had some unusual colors, though, like pinks,coral, salmon and purple, all made with gold, and we introduced that awful green mica glass.

It looks like an early Peltier red on white swirl. I am not familiar with Alley, though.