bumblebee

Up to $75 now...

10 minutes ago, Chad G. said:

You're right on the money from what I see. The seller says "Vintage hand painted" I'm guessing "vintage" could mean just about anything except antique ??

Well, the marbles could be vintage but newly hand-painted, or the paint could be vintage and the marbles could be new.

Do I smell new paint or are my Spidey senses off?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/284721125854

51 minutes ago, Ric said:

Here are some big ones too . . .

 

Wow! So hard to find biggies...love me Masters with lots of clear glass.

Here's a few killers. The Tiger Eye is 0.72" and wet mint. Took a while to find one!

This one is minty and a tad over 11/16 (0.69"). Some call it a Popeye, or a Blue Popeye, or a Black Popeye, or a Moss Agate, or a Really Dark Blue Egg Yolk Sort of Not Really, or just a Corkscrew.

I call it a Score!

I have quite a few in my big "placeholder" jug.

Some actually are not bad at all, like that biggie in the top right.

PDF also attached.

1911-06 Brick and Clay Record vol 38.pdf

"V" for victory on this Phantom Conqueror I found today:

Very interesting. I did not realize they were trying to imitate agates via Meteors, but I see they were trying to put a sort of bullseye "cap" on them with that mossy semi-translucent base than many agates have. Interesting one of the colors was yellow but hardly anyone can find a real yellow agate now.

Great full-page article on marble playing and marble lore.

I do gamble once and a while on eBay. For example, have a $20 small lot coming simply because it appeared to have an egg yolk Akro shooter in it, which might be worth $20 if it's particularly mint and the pattern looks as cool as I think it is.

Also sometimes I buy agates that I suspect aren't hand-faceted. About one out of four times they turn out to be the real deal.

My rejects I put in my big jar which I sometimes let neighborhood children take marbles from.

For me the anticipation thrill is almost worth about $20, so as long as I don't do this too often, it feels like part of the fun.

Bumping this topic because those agates are true killers!

Tempted to call it a headlamp bullseye.

Lovely!

1 hour ago, hdesousa said:

Interesting group of "old marbles" on eBay.  Seller said she bought them together in the UK some 30 years ago.

Four blood alleys (marble marbles), 10 hand faceted, played with, jasper (?) marbles, a clear agate and an ivory marble.  (I've seen more pelt golden rebels than hand faceted jasper marbles.)

Marble marbles range from 13.2 mm to 18.4 mm

Hand faceted jasper marbles are mentioned in Jeff Carskadden's book 'Colonial Period and Early 19th-century Children's Toy Marbles', pg 125

 

Killer score, Hansel! Honestly if it weren't for those blood alleys, I would assume that's just another contemporary machine ground mineral sphere set.

From now on I'm peering closer at listings like those.

The only faceted non-agates I have are a rose quartz and this guy, which to my eye looks a lot like the one above your ivory(!) one:

Paid $20 each for two Navarre's (1" and .95") that were sold as slags. Left one is very mint range aside from one impact fracture. Right one has more as-mades and seems a little lopsided. Also another $10 for some nice little machinemades including a cobalt/black Akro cork and a pretty neat little Rainbo. Condition mint range on those.

Wow, great shots of many marbles I've never seen.

I've only ever found on old Hercules. It was a gorgeous marble I regret selling.

That's a neat marble toy, but I imagine they didn't last long indoors after parents heard a few dozens rings.

WOW!

Seeing this, I realize I don't really collect marbles. I just happen to have a few marbles.

That's a collection! I'd pay to look at that collection.

19 minutes ago, Steph said:

I am at work now so I haven't checked it out on my home computer, but I finally realized I do have that capacity.

When I try to print something, I am offered the option of saving to PDF.  And I'm able to choose the page range for printing. So, yeah,  I could have gotten it myself.  I just never thought to "print" it.  

 

Just pay attention to what DPI it wants to print at. I keep mine to 600 for print, so lots of detail, although that may be overkill depending on the source.

16 minutes ago, Steph said:

Thanks!  I do have Windows 10.  I'll hunt for that tool.  

I believe it might be a featured installed by owning Microsoft Office 365 (Word, et al). If you don't have that, this might work: https://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

Article describes the Leighton factory including the manufacturing process.

This PDF version contains the entire page in high resolution.

20 hours ago, Steph said:

Had to clean this thread up.  The original graphics that I linked to were gone.   I used the Google Books source.   I broke page 380 into three images in order to be able to screenshot it widely enough to be what I hope is easily readable.  So, in case you're saving my images, realize that the middle page is a multiparter.  

It would be handy to extract pages 379 to 381 in PDF form from the longer PDF document, but I don't currently have the software for that. 

Here's the PDF excerpt. My Windows 10 PC has a "Save to PDF" option so I just saved that page range.

1883-04-17 Harper's Young People pages 386-388.pdf

I changed the description of the forum. Let me know whether you want it different.