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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

A day late, but here's a few handmade and Pelt peewee's (with a 1/2" and 5/8). You'd think they'd get lost all the time.

That's pretty cool. Totally tubular

More pics of the "clasp" part (opposite of the mark) might help narrow it down a bit more

Thanks Al, that thread was good for a laugh. The Mozilla troubles I've had have been more recent than that though, probably one of the settings got changed in an update. Cool postcard pic

Used to be able to with Mozilla, but eBay pages looks different now and pics aren't right-clickable. It might have something to do with browser settings?

How many different colors were made? or maybe the better question is: are the non-orange ones still considered "flinties" or something else?

I've seen a couple like that but they are more half and half construction of the green/red (less white). Nice clarity to those pics

A lot of dinky toys got initialed with nail polish or model paint. Somebody must have liked that marble to initial it, although it could be a contemporary artist doing the right thing and signing their work?

I'd heard about some brass ones, which makes sense if you look at Christmas-type jingle bells, formed similarly and more malleable than steel. Nowadays they make ball bearings in ceramic which look pretty much just like glass marbles - (although obviously a lot less out of round)

Lol, interesting stats and Sami makes a good point - objective vs. subjective. I didn't see a category for 3 seams but expect it's a possibility if the glass folds back on itself.

Could be, are there only 9 holes on that game board? If from a game itwould make sense if the game board had more holes (same with your pic),but thanks for posting that ziggy.

Interesting marbles, glad I found this thread. Posted these earlier and they're similar to some of the other blue and white marbles shown later in this post. Haven't heard of a blue panther but would think that name is better suited for the blue/black types pictured earlier in the post.

First pic where the left light reflection is, what's going on there?

Domino's and chess pieces were made out of ivory or bone. Dice too. Could be game marbles. No evidence of hand-ground-facets on these lol.

Looks like a 7 to me, figured they could be ballot box marbles or something? Game marbles maybe?

So, I'm curious is the gutta perchs were originally intended to be more "rubbery" like a bouncing ball, or a marble? Were they game marbles like carpet bowls ?

Wow! thanks for that pic! I was hoping to see more detail from the first one, especially the one with the figures. Amazing. Good luck with the auction duffy , even if it is a superball post pics. lol

The "agate cutter" pics are hilarious. Can you imagine laying down on the job all day (literally). A pic of some more non-glass marbles, I think a couple are actually ground stone rather than clay/ceramic, maybe a couple ivory or bone too. Plus a neat note that came with some agates as I got them. (7th grade in 1927 wasn't me) I never paid much attention to the non-glass marbles and didn't think I had so many until I started rooting around

I'll throw this out there and I hope i don't offend anyone, but when it comes to trying to identify types of swirls that look like these I group them by similarity in colors only, (in the same basic way that I'd sort cat eyes by color). Anyone that can narrow down a specific manufacturer would have more experience/knowledge and I respect that. Big groups of similar marbles would help with the ID vs trying to ID each one on their own.

Colorful marbles bring these to mind, I hope it's OK if handmades can play too.