Steph

These were from an ebay auction.

Here's Nancy's box. @pollyestr2

Here are a couple of mine which I think are Bogard. I need a bigger better picture of this luscious one. Then there's this simple one.

As I continue my shift from Photobucket to Imgur, here are some Bogard pictures I retrieved. I think these (or at least most of them) are from David Chamberlain, and were posted in the Bogard thread at Marble Mental.

It probably goes without saying how nice it is to see you (and your delectable mibs) but I'll mention it anyway!

LOL .... and hey there!

The past ceramic artists I had in mind who made names for themselves in the marble world were Nadine MacDonald and Tom Thornburgh. A different style from yours. I've sent a feeler to my contemporary guru to see if she's aware of anyone else who might be relevant to you. Edit: the only additional names were for polymer clay guys such as Carl Fisher which I gather is not what you had in mind.

About ten years ago I gave some marbles away to a cub scout mother for a marbles badge the boys could earn. But I don't think that badge is available anymore. The most active marble recruiter I know of is Rich Maxwell who helps students build marble runs at schools. I see him posting about various marble activities on facebook. Here is his website. https://marblekeeper.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Redc8-d4DTNG8Q5utBjGekEL_NeSy5Fyuo1_0zqa7EHiMzgIB1J998bk

Aw, thank you. And thank you for being here with your great posts.

For sure Peltier Multicolor Rainbo on the right. Tentatively Alley, Alley, Christensen on the first three.

Some modern marbles come with an iridescent coating. Some Vacors have it. Some Jabos did. And I imagine some from Asia have it. I'm not aware of vintage marbles having the iridescent finish.

I think vintage. A distinctive marble type that I've seen several times before. I might even have one. But I don't know if I ever saw a definitive ID on this style. If I do have one, I probably got it in a lot which was half Alley and half another company (I don't recall which) and the marbles were in a display case and fell out of the case in transit and got all mixed up and I was too new to collecting to promptly deal with the situation and sort the marbles out. If I had done that, I might know right now what that mysteriously attractive marble is.

I don't have as many as Ron but my Akroware has a cat! Miss Bibi was intrigued by the new arrivals.

Another good question, and I do not know., but I'll also put this question where more might see it.

I'm going to send this question over to the main chat area. I could hypothesize about Peltiers -- thinking about the cost-saving measures which they started adopting in the last half of the 30's -- but ???

Most out-of-round marbles would have come from the factory that way and weren't reconditioned. Probably different reasons for out-of-round. Before I start ad-libbing, I probably should ask if you have any particular marbles in mind. Antique German marbles would have different reasons for being out of round than modern Jabos would. I have been under the impression that machine-made marbles were more likely to be round during the age when kids were playing a lot of marbles, so I suppose that's where I'm most curious if you're thinking of examples there. P.s., we lost Leroy in 2018

Hi. I'm leaning strongly to this being an Alley Agate. Alley Agate history at Joemarbles.com

Made me smile. And good on you for doing your research.

Cedarman is a marble collector who sells marbles. Just a person.

Now I have three more coming. Nothing fancy. Just an opportunity which came up and I said yes.

Would guess after 1930. Would not be sure I guessed right.

The older clays were sometimes called "commies" because they were so common. I think the ones you made are beautiful. Might take a bit to develop a following but it could happen. I can think of a couple of makers of ceramic marbles who established their works as collectible.

Hi. Welcome. That does look like glass to me. More views might help with the ID.

I've decided. I'm going to sift the dirt off and put it in a baggie and then clean the marbles and put them in my Pennsboro box. I better do that before too much Wisconsin dust gets mixed in with the WV dirt.