I'llhavethat1

Could be redundant, but I'd question if the glass temperature plays a big part in the 'spidery' cutoffs vs 'line' cutoffs (rather than guesses like where they were made or the sharpness of the shears?) It's an open general question

If nothing else, The red/white "transitionals' POP bold color, stand out in a crowd and outnumber the other opaque marbles of this type by a huge margin, from what I've seen. Wonder why? Red apparently wasn't common on North American hand gathered marbles (during the era hand gathered marbles were being made in North America)

I heard they came from outer space. discuss

Yikes, I'd say. Only seen a couple others. Nice deliberate looking construction though (one of the others I'd seen was probably accidental)

Not sure if it was mentioned in the auction listing or not, have to check

Thought this looked pretty cool

The knack of identifying WV swirls is something I'll probably never be good at, but clever idea to number the columns and alphabet-ize(?) the rows.

From what I understand, true 'Agates' (slanged as Aggies) were prized by players since they were more dense and not as fragile as glass. Higher density = better chance of knocking an opponents marble out of the ring. Plus they were prettier than most clays although labor intensive to make by hand. Along came the industrial revolution and companies started to make marbles more efficiently out of glass, trying to simulate the look (of these prized Agate marbles) hence the names ___ Agate Co. etc. I wasn't around back then so this is purely my opinion. Orange you glad you asked?

From my marbles 101 study book: upper right is an Akro and on it's left is an Agate.

Some of these turned out orange-ish

ooo...a removed photo sounds very mysterious

I see a couple there that I would like (which probably aren't on your radar, just my personal preference) . Nice marbles

would have been a fun storyboard to lay out

Casters, approx 2" stamped PAT 78 (?) Set of 4. I just need some grand table or something to put these suckers on

Red something or other with seams and a fold

It would be a tough arguement to say those aren't some of the nicest looking marbles

Some of my favorite balls o' Barton

Now we're talking, nice ones

Found this in my old pics, one on the right looks similar (apologies for the light reflections)

Made me think of this one but I don't know if that's any more help or just a coincidence

Nice spread, good representation including some hand gathered slags. I think most marbles in the 'bull's eye agate' category have more of a concentric circle pattern. Nice piece of cane too.

...other than 'awesome'??

wow, Vacor?

I don't know if anybody else has mentioned yet but you do a good job with your pictures (angles, borders etc). Nice