I'llhavethat1

Good topic, so mainly a 'boxed' marble unit of measurement?

Nice, good cheer-up picture!

An unusual cane-cut marble though, yes? Semantics where the pole opposite the pontil could be referred to as 'melted'. Very large size for a vintage German marble of this type, but not to say this couldn't be one. On a side-note, the underwater picture trick isn't a good representation of how it would actually look without the haze - makes the core look more shrunken (although there does appear to be a fair amount of clear glass casing).

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Hard to say without seeing it in natural 'non-wet' condition. One things for sure, it wouldn't be the same after buffing (better or worse remains to be seen, once buffed cannot be un-buffed)

I agree that 1"+ is not a common size for Mica's, however I do believe larger Solitaire sets were made to accommodate the 1"+ sizes (just not nearly as many).

Interesting, the reflections don't help. Even with a good camera reflections can throw pics off on your monitor. Anybody seen it in hand?

Looks like a lot of fun, I think more than one of us can say they enjoy sorting marbles for nuances or similarities

link to 'sawed-off tin can' egg-frying device?

No kidding, it's August already. Summer is flying by.

Found it quicker than I thought. Might stick out like a black sheep on that board, but right around 7/8ths and not near as blue as the pics turned out

I'll take a look around. Might have a couple like that but can't remember the size. I imagine that there was some variation in technique when these guys were twisting a glob off the cane, and also variation in the faceting techniques/tools. Maybe they were 'Friday Afternoon" or 'Monday Morning' marbles. Although the melted pole of the marbles looks decent.

Nice group. 25 yrs = 'time well spent', congrats. So which one caught your eye first, the green one?

thatta boy

A buddy of mine, that knows more about plumbing, claims drain mice are the biggest source of calls. You know, the ones with the tails

I like the Pelt display, with the tiered levels

Cool pic, those must be some of the cleanest tools on the block

Nice aventurine,

Cool, that many sparklers at once is probably not something many of us have seen. What an exotic find!

Did I once hear that the naming convention only applied to Pelt NLR marbles and not so much to Pelt Rainbo's?

I bet it'll be yummy free stuff too! Year supply of canned Tamales yay!

Not seeing much meat, and chicken byproducts in a can or other wise is probably best left un-thunk

I think I see what you mean by illumination in your first pic. 2"+ marble is going to have some weight for sure. I wouldn't have considered part of a lamp or candlestick but who knows? The pattern is nice. 35+ years gives it a bit of history. The precision of the pattern would have been very difficult to achieve in a marble pre-dating the time when most of the handmade German marbles were made 100+ years ago

Red, White and blue

The part about losing his legs in a hand grenade attack and the molotov cocktail attack a year later, wow.