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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

Some of the very few contemporary marbles I have, but the aventurine is great

Hmm...

Those are bigger than I would have thought were made. Do you think they were intended to be marbles or something else

Some of the ones currently posted look new (using an older technique). The one I posted actually looks old. Hard to say. I'm sure someone from Bulgaria knows something unless it's only one guy in a basement churning them out. Which it could very well be. Steph, your gut says they could be older?

This one looks pretty good until I saw where it was from and that made me think twice... http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=131102113743

Cool, you'll probably get some requests to see more shots of the Alley. The bricks sure live up to their namesake in that condition. I kind of like them that way

You got a ways to go buddy (j/k) - on the cube I mean. Pics and subject matter = spot on

2nd marble from the OP looks like a 'snotty' except purple hues. Wouldn't want to call it a purple-hued-snotty but the thought very much crossed my mind