richsantaclaus

Most of them are 1 1/4" but range from 5/8" to 2 1/4"

I posted on my web site some of my favorite marbles I made. If you have time, take a look and let me know what you thought of them. http://www.santasbling.com/index.php/glass/35-stories/97-my-favorite-keeper-marbles Thanks Rich

I am thinking it is a carpet ball.

Geesh that is a BIG marble!!!!!

Where did all the glass go?...lol

I planned on coming and selling but my family got into the way that weekend so I can't be there physically BUT mentally, forget the family...lol

I have several marbles that I see shapes in their design. Walking women, eyes, birds, all 26 letters of the alphabet, digits 0 thru 9, medallions, planera (flatworm), hearts, on and on and on..... I bet I have over 200 of themsaved in special cigar boxes!

It looks like different facial expressions...lol

Sammy sure is a great teacher too!

In the first link, I see all the markings of an inexperienced torched lampworker that burned the glass with too much propane in the flame I am afraid.

May all your marbles turn to pure gold - HBD!

VERY nice ones!!!!!

Remelts are marbles made into a bigger marble. Cullet marbles came fron shards of glass and weren't marbles to begin with. Here are some remelt marbles I made from putting together 3 or 4 Jabo maebles that were first made on a marble making machine. All these marbles are about 1" diameters.

Way to go Mike!!!!!

Here are examples of my cullet marble work. Some cullet is from the original machine marble making plents dug by others i bought the cullet from and others were made from the extra glass from the Jabo company where it dropped off the stream/rollers into a pile where I broke it up into smaller pieces. I also use broken Avon bottle cullet, broken candy dishes as cullet, broken glass plates as cullet and candle sticks that have been chipped/broken cullet to make marbles.

plop - there goes MY jaw!!!!!

Thanks for the HOT pix!!!!!

Edna - the crusibles have to be in something to get them hot like a glory hole type container. It can just be a crucible kiln type contraption. Do you have any pix of what the WV furnace people use so I can see please? Thanks Rich

A "furnace marble" is a marble made when using a glory hole like a glass blower uses. The base glass is obtained from a crucible using a longmetal punty (like Sammy Hogue uses) rather then a blow pipe. "Tank wash" marbles come from the adding of a different glass to an oven when one wants to remove the older glass and replace it with the new glass. The resulting marbles from the replacement are the tank wash marbles.

I don't think I could repair THAT one...lol!!!!!!!!

Very worth your hard effort!!!!!

What a wonderful looking find!

Totally wonderful!!!!!

nice, VERY nice stuff!!!

Never seen one like that before - cool!!!!!