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Makes sense that things evolve (recipes, manufacturing techniques), and cullet/dump samples span decades within a couple shovel scoops from each other. English colors, Murano glass, early onionskin colors (white/yellow base or no base) are beside the point of the auction, but interesting topics and worthy discussion.

...just like peeling back the layers of an onion

Seen a couple of those as well. Once things were more automated, "keep production moving" was sometimes beyond a decision made by the artist. Some oddballs made it through

I see your dilemma. It's a unique marble with character and you can still reasonably see what's going on inside. Polished it could lose some of that character. The wax might be a good compromise I'm still on the fence about this one (these pics are already underwater, so way worse surface condition than yours).

Pretty marbles. Thanks for posting (looking forward to seeing some more)

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There's a small spice jar I have around somewhere with some old metal buttons and a couple plastic ones. Maybe a Levi's button. What would those Peltier buttons have been used for? They look a little 'rough around the edges'

you guys both meant adventurine right?

Does the marble in the OP look like most vintage marbles? no. Could it still be a vintage marble? yes. Will anybody ever know for sure? probably not. Still fun to discuss and see examples tho. A good portion of my 'old' handmades don't react under UV. Some are brighter than others, some don't appear to glow at all. As far as the faceted pontil goes, I'd expect a fair amount of variation or inconsistency in technique (picturing some guy just trying to avoid buzzing off his cramped fingers on a big grinding wheel all day). <----that mental image could be totally wrong.

Did the lightning bolt marbles have faceted pontils? (don't have one and haven't seen one that close)

Just noticed the grade ramping up from large to small. Don't know if the Germans did that in their coffin boxes. Can you post another pic of the artwork on the front (theme looks European). Curious why you added Agate marbles, do you know something we don't yet?

Ooooo. Interesting. Seems like a North American term & theme with packaging style normally attributed to Europe.

Great movie

That's just an awesome marble .

Affect and effect are commonly done rong.

For some reason the ones with this color combo (red core with blue bands) are often seen with the red latticino divided into three groups. Don't know why

Cool, so that makes it ~5/8" then?

What's the size? Is it as white as it looks or is that baby blue washed out from the flash

Nice mibs

niiiiice

The bass (if you're a bass guitar fan, not the fish). Kossoff is incredible as well.

Doesn't look like a beginner marble to me, pretty cool actually. Maybe someone here recognizes the maker. Is there any signature or initials

Sure, onionskin-type pattern I should have said. There is no core (wide open on the inside)..

Those are nice ones, are the first two pics the same marble? Haven't seen a lutz like that before, cool. Here's another oddball, even if it made it to be an onionskin the colors would have been weird.

Huge onionskin-type, really rough pontil