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That would be nice. Unfortunately, the lack of evidence so far inclines me to believe the story about the last employees there burning all of CAC's records. But I live in hope. Sometimes, anyway.

Both Brian and John have good, practical ideas about how it might have been done. You may not agree with them, but I'm afraid that doesn't make them wrong. Best keep an open mind, until somebody invents a time machine and pays a visit to the factory back in the day.

Sorry, but lots of assumptions there, too! [where's that "poking the bear" symbol?]

If I was going to Canton, I'd buy you one!

This is something John wrote in a thread a while back -- don't know exactly when, since I saved it then as a seperate document (as opposed to searching the forum): CA Guineas (Hand-gathered and Machine-rounded) A gather of base glass (cobalt, amber, clear, etc...) is collected on the end of a punty rod. The gathering-boy then rolls the gather in frit laying on a marver. Now, because the frit is cold, the dots need to be heated to melt in with the base glass. There is not enough heat in the base glass to integrate the frit completely. The gathering-boy then reheats the complete gather in the glory hole. Once the glass is back up to temperature, the gathering-boy removes the gather from the glory hole and brings it to the forming machine. A gob (or gobs) are cut off into the machine for rounding. The first gob will have one cut-line and each successive gob will have two. Later there's a bit about perhaps needing a new term -- not hand-gathered or cane-cut, exactly -- more like "manipulated" glass.

Still would like to know who scored this off of ebay a while ago -- bunch of interesting guinea pieces went with . . .

:rolleye-842: Crossin' CallBob off my list of people who write things I might want to read . . .

Nice thread . . .

Including the ones that don't say "Cloudy?" I haven't seen very many Master boxes, so I have no idea . . .

Interesting how the color of the side printing on the box coordinates with the color of the marbles. Gives a little weight to the idea that they are original to the box?

Anybody here get this lot (plus guinea halves) that was sold on ebay recently? I'd love closer and more detailed photos . . .

You're right. I've emailed them before, and they've apologised profusely, but they continue to make pretty obvious mistakes -- although not quite as bad or as often.

They could be anything. He's in Bulgaria.

I didn't know the Illuminati were into marbles . . .

Gotcha.

Why don't you just lay it out here for all of us?

Not saying the first glass marbles ever. I'm talking about the mid-nineteenth century. Aside from that, glass marbles were very rare in any period -- and some that people have termed "marbles" might more accurately be described as "game pieces." We don't actually know how some of them were used.

And keep in mind that apparently glass marbles were a novelty in Europe in the middle of the 19th century, being new then, as best we currently know. Most of the ones we know and love now can't be securely dated (with a few exceptions) before the 1860s.

Anybody have any MK swirls from back in the day? Or ones they think might be, or could be? Please post them, if you do . . . Thanks

Nice JABOs.

Already have mine on order from amazon.

For those of you who are interested, JABO was unexpectedly shut down last night, and today the majority owner came to the plant to make sure the machines were cold. And for those of you interested in sources, the news came from someone who has spoken to Dave McCullough daily for the past three or four years, and spoke to him this morning.

They're larvae . Destroy it immediately, for all our sakes . . . hurry . . .

^^what he said.

I don't know about that. Red & yellow will produce orange. You'd need yellow and blue to produce green. Unless you're talking about a particular chemical rection in glass that I'm not aware of. Anyway, usually it's more a matter of one color overlaying another, to a greater or lesser degree, rather than a real mix or "blend," as Rich says. Even though we call them "blends," they're not really. Usually you can tell they're overlays if you look very closely, or you can see the striations where the two colors meet and kind of "interweave." Unless there's a discoloration there caused by a chemical reaction between the two, as Edna pointed out. So far as I know.