marbleseeker

I plan on taking some.

I seen some of his works. This one is about half that size but has had to have had some glass removed at some point. Either way it is pretty cool and the only one I have like it. Thanks Steph

Too much white?

Twins! You have some nice marbles there.

A blue based brick. Colors came off a little bit in the pictures.

Another marble I found a while back.

Found this one a while back.

Not in perfect shape but first one I found.

Ok, looks like I keep this one. My wife and I had a kid about 4 years ago and have a lot of credit card debt to get rid of so I am looking for things to sell. But I don't want to sell anything of questionable nature. So until I can get more info it will just remain. I kind of like the marble anyway.

Thanks Steph, do you know what a "black widow" would be? The spiders are black and red. But that is just a wasp and those are fairly common.

I thought the Chinese marbles only had the Millefiori on the surface and not all the way through. Am I incorrect on this? Besides that the only other issue I would have with Chinese manufacturing is that the marble is quality glass. Chinese glass always seems to have undissolved chunks and unwanted air bubbles because they never cook the glass long enough.

There is one one Marblealan's reconstructed ID guide and it shows no pontil on top of the marble. Were these single pontil marbles? I have one, I think it may have been polished as there are no pontils and on the side the cane is starting to be exposed. The canes go all the way through the marble. Is there anyone who is known for making contemporary millefiori cane marbles? This marble is just over 3/4" or 25/32"

Looking at past auctions featuring marble king marbles and I came across this. He calls it a "Black Widow". Looks like a weak wasp to me. What am I missing? Click here to see auction

That's why I ask. Thanks!

This looks to me to be a "pinpoint" pontil. Is this correct?

I've seen them but never really questioned it. You will find lots of anomalies in machine made marbles.

I had a similar idea using a coffee table. Remove the top and build a frame to hold the glass. Using furniture grade 1x4 so that you could install some lighting or just have a good overhead lamp from the ceiling. Stain the new top to match the base. Then line the base with wood planks or several square pieces drilled out to hold the marbles in place. But my imagination is often more energized than my body so I never made it.

Generation gap showing here. We simply had marbles and boulders. Catseyes, peeries and steelies. We did not shoot them against each others to knock them out of a ring. We dug a small hole in the ground and who ever got the marble in first would win. Thus we used a "snap" (like when you snap your fingers to a song) to send the marble flying. Some kids could hole it on one shot from 10 yards away. A catseye was = to two peeries and a steely were equal to two catseyes. But most kids didn't use them because they would sink into the sand making them harder to shoot.

I thought a shooter had to be at least 3/4"? There you go screwing up the names and definitions again Galen!

Second picture top right looks like a vancor "hand made swirl". Third picture down the ones with the ribbon core, I have some very similar to those and have been told they could be Jody Fine as well.

Just a wild guess but the ones in the bag are probably "Stuks Agate" per the label Manufacturas de Vidrio el Aguila, S.A. = Vancor de Mexico According to Marblealan's reconstructed guide they have space type names. Like the black with yellow one is called "Jupiter". The black with white and a little blue is called "galaxy".

I thought my comment was fairly witty and deserved a damn LOL on the next post Bob!

I think that horse belonged to Ichabod Crane

Just reminded me a lot of the Vacor de Mexico Rooster

Here is a top down view.