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Mostly pattern, and the balance between the colors. In an older swirl, there's usually a clear argument for which color is the base glass and which is the ribbon. That distinction frequently gets lost in Jabos. Another thing is how many colors you're picking up in your photos. The more shades, the more likely you're looking at a Jabo. This one for instance. It actually has a relatively distinct white "ribbon" in the left view, but look at all those shades in the right view.
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Welcome. I agree with Jabo.
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That's looking like a swirl. I wouldn't call that Akro or Master. Sometimes you just can't tell with these essentially solid-colored marbles.
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I am leaning modern and Jabo.
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Hard to tell in a photo, but that lower left plum-colored one might turn out to be a Master Cloudy. Cloudys are harder to find and identify than Akros. Which marble did you backlight first? with the bubbles ...
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Dayang!! I got a super late start on veggies this year. No explosions. But I finally got some veggie plants in the ground. AND ... I have flowers!!! So very new to me. Pretty simple for now. But foxgloves and lupines and bellflowers and milkweed and and and ....
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Does anyone have any interest in paperweights?
Steph replied to w8ingnthebushes's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
I am not aware of marble manufactures making paperweights. I suppose Peltier could have. They made a whole lot of things. And there might have been Italian or German manufactures who did both but I wouldn't know any names. I visited a paperweight forum once, doing research on how what we call sulphides got that name. It had finally occurred to me that whatever was happening in marbles had generally been happening in a bigger way with paperweights. It was a positive experience. So that would be my best advice. I don't remember the name of the forum I visited all those years ago, but surely you could find a good one with an internet search. -
Pelt for sure. I don't know about cuts, but the colors are classic. Another clue is the flip-flop color distribution. Yellow on top on the left, white on top on the right.
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The glass is looking modern to me. But maybe I just have modern on the brain -- it seems to be my answer on everything today.
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It's different from my Vacor Sunsets, but I suspect it would fit in this Sunset bag from the Billes-in-tete site:
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Pelt Rainbo on the green. Possibly pre-cat's eye but could overlap. Not sure about the yellow. I'm thinking either interesting Pelt ... or interesting Marble King. If Marble King, then I'm thinking modern. Some of those modern MK cats got pretty shredded. I'll bump the thread and root for Pelt for you.
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How would be go about restoring this old vintage brick?
Steph replied to CharlieT's topic in Restoration Q & A
This could be a question of who currently polishes marbles with machines. Or it could be a question of how to do light touch-ups at home. I remember hearing of people polishing by hand. But I don't know the details. And I know of someone who has used water-soluble polymer to make the surface quite presentable. And @Kimbernugs has been working with resin: https://marbleconnection.com/topic/35002-resin-coating-project -
The Peltier is a Multicolor Rainbo, from the National Line Rainbo era, early 1930's.
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I am leaning Vitro on the first one. I see Akro possibilities, but leaning Vitro.
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A peewee Peltier Grasshopper or a Blue Lagoon with Aventurine?
Steph replied to rockgardenplants's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Oh, here's a marble being called a Grasshopper? Rare and Hard to Find | peltiermarblesinfo To me this marble is very different from yours. In my auction I would call yours a Peltier Peewee Rainbo and then hype the Peewee part. -
A peewee Peltier Grasshopper or a Blue Lagoon with Aventurine?
Steph replied to rockgardenplants's topic in Marble I.D.'s
I say yes to Pelt Rainbo. Not a Blue Lagoon. I am not familiar with Grasshopper as a Pelt name, but definitely Pelt Rainbo in my book. -
Loving the sharp brightness of the middle two. Thanks for the bump! (Gentle p.s. -- I would not have the left with my Veiligglas and I'm wondering if the right marble might be a Ravenswood, which wouldn't be a bad thing!)
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Peltier Honey Bee? Opaque. No aventurine. 5/8"
Steph replied to rockgardenplants's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Torn between Pelt and Marble King. -
Hi Scott. Do you see something like this at the bottom of the posting window? I clicked on the "choose files" option and chose this image from my computer.
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Making Rolley Hole marbles this year
Steph replied to RolleyHoleMan's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Thanks for checking in. This is pretty sad. Literally no one? Shocking. But overall, it sounds very nice. Happy for you. -
Yes, Anacortes would by my first choice on those.
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Totally Pelt. And yeah, I agree some kind of error. I don't know what conditions contributed to the error.
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How weird is it that I can't remember if I have a pink champagne? If I were a pink champagne where would I be?