I'llhavethat1

Nice marble, it can be frustrating sometimes to take pictures and post , only to get no responses. Not because it's being ignored but more likely because people are scratching their heads and wondering what the marble could be as well. From the pictures I'd agree it doesn't look like it was made outside of North America so it was likely imported to where it is now. 7/8" is a large size for a red slag, so it's a nice one.

I love this part, you know you have a serious marble collection when you frame/build a display cabinet with 2x8's.

Wow Looking on the bright side, what (oh what) are they? A couple marble mavens at attention...maybe a process of elimination can shed some further light?

approx 14"x24". I was going to hang it on the wall but then worried about dusting, so planned for a frame with plexiglass front, bought all the materials and haven't got around to it yet I like how the pattern and hardware kind of looks like a guitar (with a bit of imagination)

Electric kick-back

Looks to be a nice selection of slags?

pretty cool! Interesting thought about black and white marble photo's

Half inch and smaller ? cool

I've scratched my head about the bottom one for a while. Don't know if it was meant to be that way or what it was supposed to be.

Smallest I've seen is somewhere around .4", ~10mm

Nice examples to start off a marble collection . These two could be interesting Pelts. Not necessarily in a big value kind of way, just interesting

old yellers

Wow, they do look like a match. Can't say I've seen two same cane in anything close to that size let alone three. Must have been a huge cane he was working with.

Bummer about the chocolate cow, hope some of the other ones made up for it

Couple interesting marbles in the lot but taking a chance on condition for sure.

Wow, if that's a vintage clambroth - 3 colors AND cased? yikes!

Interesting video. So eventually other companies achieved the same result down a set of rollers (rather than wheels). All probably within the industrial revolution era and things were literally moving quick.

The one lurking on the top left I think is around 2-3/8" (looks larger in the picture, at the time I was trying to give a sense of scale).

A few years back I tried growing bamboo shoots in marbles, worked pretty well. I like the idea of an end-table might try that next

So the part that appears red isn't white under the purple glass (making it look red-ish)? If it is actually red and white on the surface, it probably wouldn't fall into the slag category. Nice marble though

If the only surface colors are white (and not the multitude of colors usually seen on an indian), my guess would be a cane-cut slag with a purple base.

Ah, I see what you did now. At first I thought it was a glass globe filled with marbles but it's really a bowling ball with marbles siliconed to the outside? cool

3" is pretty huge, I think I've seen a picture of that one before. So if all it took was a properly sized fruitwood forming block, there should be at least a couple other ones over 2-3/8" around out there. A long time ago I saw one on eBay pictured with a baseball for comparison, and it was about the same size. Can't think of seeing too many others though.

Yep, you're probably right. BTW my interpretation of now-banned material = 'dangerous things we used to play with' like Mercury and Asbestos, was in bad form so I edited my other post accordingly. So - still curious if anybody else has other numbers or knows what these were used for? Would they be numbered up to 16 for pea pool?

I've heard there are some real huge ones out there, but most were kept under 2.5" due to deformation during manufacture, is that still the consensus? (I imagine the glassworker could pretty much attempt any size they wanted). There were probably some factors like packaging, limited market, and raw materials (1 huge marble vs. ~40 small marbles) etc. Mostly curious how they would have been marketed, or if they were simply one-offs. Largest I have are a couple around 2-3/8"