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Were the 'braaats' soaked in beer overnight? They are pretty good when boiled in beer then grilled. (personal taste I guess) I was down south this past week and did have some fried okra. And lots of other fried stuff.

There is a pontil (square as it gets,) some seedy glass, Hey, as long as you like it is the important thing, right? Good luck with your marbles

Would it be possible that some of the advertisements used 'stock' illustrations and were built to order ie: contact us with your current request and we'll make you something similar to what's shown. Yes it will be round and glass.

For some reason I want to say the original post, left most one may be a bit older than the rest. The big red one in the same pic, so that's a blue base?

I don't collect those but man, nice grouping

Agreed that most would have ended up as Joseph coat style. Good examples Roger

Interesting. there are other incredible single pontil marbles from earlier as well, but not often in that style I agree

Those are some pretty unique examples, don't know how many others but I'd like to see them as well

Wow, great pattern.

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Makes you wonder if some of the larger German handmades were really intended to be used as marbles? I think around 1-1/4" was about as large as most American marbles were made

Not so sure about that part, a lot of German marbles I've seen have a similar trait.

You thinking a glass top? Throw some 'claw' feet on there and you'd be good to go. Nice find

Agreed, there is something about this type that makes me wish there were more color combo's

Small headed Elephant? Maybe a Lion? I doubt all the sculptors were 100% on anatomy (although surprisingly good most of the time)

I get the tongue-in-cheek, but if you do have examples of NLR's that fit that description they sound interesting

Not a bad looking marble.

Cool items, throw on a tie and bingo.

2nd column 4th down looks nice

blocked due to geographic location maybe?

this part is classic: Really? Is it a magical unicorn or a lawyer?

What a nutty thread.

Interesting info in this thread. The part I'm having difficulty with is how the so-called color layer 'burns off' under a torch. To me that would indicate it's not really glass but some type of coating. Looking at post #4, to get a colored layer of glass one would assume after it was added that the marble would need to be beat to sh!t for those types of chips. Whereas a thin coating could have been dipped or brushed on an already chipped/damaged marble to give that appearance. In-hand it might be a different story. IMO if I sent a colored sulphide to be polished/fixed and it came back clear I'd be wondering what the heck happened

JVV, I sure miss Alan's postings. Always interesting marbles and good pics + angles to look at. Greg,- loss for words, that's a tough past year. You've lost some good friends young..