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I believe these are what's referred to as a Pelt Woody, not nearly as much blue/green/purple hues like yours appears to have. Plus these look more like wood panelling and yours is a smoother butterscotch

I'd say Pelt based on the first pics, almost like a 'woody'. Sometimes the blue/purple can appear more as an oily sheen like an oilslick and as far as I know that's what would make it a 'copperhead' more that a 'woody'

Chemical properties also have a lot to do with it, not all glass has the same specific gravity ie: lead glass being heavier. You'd see this mostly under static conditions like a furnace. Trying to mix/cool glass in a marble size with different properties will probably be more difficult for reasons like COE than anything else mentioned above. Except for the unicorns. Anything is possible.

"..Do differant formulas have differant densities?.." Yes, but probably not very significant when it comes to a ~5/8" marble glob on the rollers. I expect at a larger scale, say in a furnace, density (specific gravity) would play a bigger part since heavy sinks and light rises = separation/statification. With compression and squeezing what might be a bigger factor is the apparent viscosity (resistance to flow). Lower viscosities "flow" better than higher viscosities. Think of trying to roll a ball out of bubble gum (high viscosity) and adding water (lower viscosity). Of the two, the water will be more likely to squeeze out. Most materials viscosity will change with temperature

My guess is an odd German/Foreign 'striped opaque' (with close seams).

Hi Dink , no, the sandy background seems to show a 'truer' color of the marbles than other types of background (if I can get the pics right), and at this time of year it also helps remind me of summer! The opaque lighter purple color threw my off since I'd associate a light purple more to Vitro than Master. The brown + pattern says Master to me but who knows? Not sure, maybe I should have posted in ID section but would love to see other Masters with a similar purple, sunbursts or otherwise

Ooo Is that blue aventurine I'm seeing in the first one? The others are awesome too, looks like a nice fold in the pattern under the surface of the second one. Nice haul

Cool, any thoughts if they were intended for a specific game with the qty's of each color varying? Or maybe the boxes were filled randomly, and then at some point re-arranged by color (which could just be a common way of anybody inclined to 'sort').

Cool, hadn't seen one quite like it before

Seems like an odd color for Master, any thoughts? 7

That is a bit of a stinker. Years ago I ran into a similar situation where the seller sent me a handmade marble from another auction, not the one I bought. The marbles looked similar, but I bid a premium for the one I wanted and got sent the one I'd seen, but passed on (in order to bid more for the one I wanted).. Same deal with the other buyer that lucked out with "my" marble not very interested in getting it resolved

Nice pics, marbles look great!

Hi Rylee, you may get some mixed opinions in response to your question. Some might say that polishing "destroys" the value and collect-ability, while others might say that it improves aesthetics because at least you can see what's going on inside and enjoy the marble's pattern. I'm assuming you mean a handmade marble that has a fair amount of clear glass encasing the inside pattern. Polishing a marble removes glass and depending on the depth of the damage/dullness a fair amount of glass may need to be removed. Removing a lot of glass can sometimes expose the "ends" of the inner pattern at each pontil which bugs some people including me, but it's a quick way to tell if a handmade has been polished. Here are a couple before/after pictures of ~1 5/8" for examples sake **results may vary** lol please excuse the quality if I can get the pics to work. Good luck with your marble what ever you decide to do with it! I'll also add that chips/dings can add a lot of character to these old marbles. Think of the stories that could be told of games on the playground 100 years ago! I think that's pretty cool in itself.

Tee-riffic! Man that's a nice score. Even better that they came all together

The term gets used between hand made and machine made marbles and sometimes referred to as more of a "tooling mark" on a handmade marble but the general idea can apply to both

Sauerkraut is very German, but I'm thinking the jar would have been bigger than the one originally shown and for the weights to make any difference.

Interesting Lid, so the jar had those in it when it came out of the ground?

That's pretty cool!

ya, some of them can be tough

Is it? (bump-arossa)

Sulphides have a lot of clear glass around the figure and cleaning up the surface helps see the detail. A couple people here can help you via polishing or remelt.

lol back when I played the trophy would be the opponents marble. Where would I find more info about those paintings (marble displays had to come down and would like something like that to hang on the wall).

I wondered if the same encasing could be done to a hand made, Rich what do you think?

I see a few nice ones, way to go. Is the one at 3 o'clock a ribbon core latt?

I learned a new word today "docent". Excited to see the pics and hear any opinions on how it would have been made