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10-12 solitaire boards w/ handmades sounds like it could be a good show. Heck that would be a tough choice though

Marbles with ground pontils, *edit*the pontils not visible in this pic.

I wasn't kidding about beat to shit, but some of these have pontils and most probably aren't German - here ya go

150-200 years old might explain why mine are all beat to crap.

Are we all looking at the same 18 and 19 pics? They really look like a different marble. That is some magic,

Good point about the boxes, I'd wager they don't "smell" old either. Old paper/cardboard products usually have a certain funk to them.

Here's a couple beaten eggyolks. ha

I'd like to see any other vintage cane-cut marble knock-offs. Those ones (although nice) still look pretty new.

cool, sounds like a bit more steps put into repair than I originally thought so maybe "cooking" wasn't the proper terminology to begin with, but the results speak for themselves. I think it turned out great, good job

I'd often wondered if "cooking" was limited to surface damage only or if "cracks" could be fixed with a torch. interesting

You got it! By NLR do you mean Millers?

Haven't seen a vintage marble with that pattern with those colors in that size, leaning towards non-vintage, but in reply to your question I'd say that's what's sometimes referred to as a ghost core on vintage marbles.

Good method since there's "No replacement for displacement", when measuring volume as long as the densities are the same. Figure something like 1 Kg per L, or ~8.34 Lbs per USG for water or something like that if comparing by mass. Glass is pretty consistent but don't forget to account for the difference in mass if comparing a "hollow steelie" to a "solid steelie (ball bearing)... That could throw a wrench in the works. (Math can be dangerous. Handle with care) Laughing is healthy. lol

Yeah at first I thought we were talking about how many x" diameter marbles would fit into a y" diameter hollow sphere, where they are all only touching each other at one point. Calculating the volume might be easier by relating it to mass, so if a 1" marble weighs "X" and a 0.5" marble weighs "Y" than "Z" amount of 0.5" marbles are equivalent to an "X" marble. Assuming similar densities of course. I think

Looks good, I hear those Toyota's really accelerate

I'm curious what a 3/4" + ravenswood would look like if they existed? It might seem like a rhetorical question, but like a smaller ravenswood pattern/construction/color, only larger? Or is there another differentiating feature like not found in original packaging that indicates they weren't made, such as range of available adjustment on the rollers? Interesting,

...that wasn't a trick question, was it?

Without the boxes or groups (or provenence) of acutually being one, based on those pictures, I'm not sure what they'd be ID'd as or sell for at a show.

I've seen these on piano stools, but not much else furniture like chairs/ etc.

going through some of my "Vitro" marbles earlier, I considered how mass produced marbles can pretty much look close to vintage marbles and the possibility of getting them confused. Marble buyer responsibilty makes sense to me. you can't save them all lol

Nice pics/explanation Don, here's a couple more Vitro conqueres I think

Here's a couple more, with an opal-ly base

Penny (Canada). Same size as a normal penny

20 x magnification?

Intentional or unintentional, it looks like it has three stages from the pics. It doesn't fit the traditional ID though. polished? Plenty of the larger handmades have colors that go all the way to the pontils, and others do not. $700 for a marble is a lot of mony