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A few times, I tried making a "two-in-one" marble by encasing two of my small marbles in clear, but the marbles in the interior always distorted out of round from the heat.

Aventurine is always in a transparent base glass, and transparent glass melts and flows at a much lower temperature than do the opalescent colors and white, so Peltier's aventurine does tend to bleed some. A chunk of glass, when heated, will begin to melt on the surface, rather like a cube of butter set in the sun, because it heats from the outside; and possibly, this hotter glass at the surface could gain transparency.

The ones that I dug look like the darker green one on the right in the third and fourth picture of the first post. Windy, (hi, Windy !) must have had bright light for her picture. They are nearly one inch, dark and ugly, with a lot of hits. mike b.

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My newest kitties....

The marbles are wondrous, Edna, and your large pics are really boss, too.

In the early days, from 1925 to 1927 and on, Peltier did make white onyx marbles, along with amber, green, azure blue, royal blue, purple, and cerise; in sizes from #00 to #5. mike

He meant "over the pond", of course.

Whatever they are, these marbles really do my nut. They look machine made and yummy. I vote old.

smokin' killer, bud !

Sometimes when that happens to me I send the pictures to Stephanie, and she makes it all better.

Stephanie's doing a terrific amount of work on a monumental task. I'd like to give her a big poke ! I hope she can find some answers to the question of the exotics with her skills. thank you, Stephanie......

Mikey likes it. I sent a message to the featured Sacramento marble and bottle collector dude, and hope I can get him to come over soon, oh boy !

I don't own the documents, and I am not permitted to post any of them on the internet, but I don't withhold the information, I answer all of the Peltier questions I can, using the documents, and whenever possible have sent scans of pertinent documents to nearly anyone with a question and an interest, not just a select few. I usually ask them to not post the documents, because I don't have permission. I thought Ann had an interest in seeing the documents related to Fiedler, so I offered to send them to her this morning, in one of them PM thingies, but I guess she just wanted to make a statement, and I must say, I agree with her, she is cranky. I'm afraid I may have to modify my Peltier document sharing policies slightly.......

Yep, that is the real primas, thank you Steph and Hansel and everybody ! By the way, the marbles that Galen shows in the Prima boxes in post #33, were called sunsets by Peltier.

I would like to know everything about them, please....

Oooh....one of them self-shooters ! Thanks up there, Steph'nie.

Sweet !

Great pictures ! They sure had a bubbly red glass the day they made those.

Fiedler Is listed in the Peltier payroll records as having an address in Ottawa, three blocks from the factory, from 1925 to 1927. He was the highest paid employee of Peltier during this period, with his pay about 50% more than that of Sellers and the top two executives of the company. His final payroll check from Peltier was canceled in March of 1928, but I believe he worked there only through 1927.

Lou....Hansel's picking on me, and being an asshole again.....make him stop, or something.....

John has the pattern down pretty good, but the glass looks new and lacks the multi-striations in the ribbons.

Well, that stinks, mon. You may have gathered what I think of those wondrous marbles.

I'd like to be younger and smarter, Lou, can you fix me up, too ? mike

Without the tiniest shred of documented evidence, I am telling you, these are genuine. mike b.