Steph

what a nice display piece

fascinating

First note is that the dragons are NLR's.  Your golden marbles there are later era Rainbos.  

I think that once upon a time I saw them referred to as golden bloodies, but maybe only a time or two, about 13 years ago, and so it appears the name didn't catch on.  

Thus, the only name I know for your golden ones is "Rainbo".  

I don't do this often enough to remember which way will work.  I just throw everything on the wall and see what sticks.  I clicked on your picture and now I'm going to paste the address that showed up in my address bar.  *fingers crossed*   Looks like it worked.

At that size, going with European or a 1950's Master.  But a bit more colorful than I expect for the Master I have in mind, so leaning European.  

This one ... I wish I still had this sweet, clean mystery marble with the beautiful turkey head but the red glass which didn't look at all Christensen to me.   It wasn't quite mint, but that was hard to see that because the few  tiny dings were in the outer layer of clear base which completely enclosed  the ribbons.  

  

Gotta love that part of the apocalypse.   Gives a smile to think about how this will be one fond memory people have from this period.  


Bet there will be a lot of young (or older?) marble racers setting up tracks in their livingrooms and backyards now too. 

Bibi knocked some of my papers and photos from George over, and this landed on top of the upended pile.  Thought I'd share before I put the papers in a more out of the way spot.   I don't know the year of the ad.  Maybe I'll find it later on a related page.  

I _think_ I have that booklet by Windy Allen.  That should be something I should be sure about, but I'm not.  

My cat pushes me off the computer sometimes.  She has become hooked on animal videos!   So sometimes I leave her to them.   She likes the computer so much she even likes to watch my letters appear as I'm typing.  It's just hard to type with her there.  

I had postponed my garden plans because my job was going to be so busy in summer ... and so physical.  But I'm not currently on the schedule, so maybe it's time to get out to those beds.  Yeah ... good idea.  Not going into work has  messed with my diet!  And I was doing so well!  Garden is sounding better and better.
 

From left to right.

Top row -- Akro, Vitro, Vitro

Bottom row -- Peltier, and then ????

I'll go with Vitro.

Stops in to wave.

Should try to think of something marbular to post but have a big paperwork thing pressing on my mind  .... ugh.

Matt finishes sometimes come from spending time in water, such as in an aquarium.  

*high five*

P.s. more good press for Jelle!   I know he's loving it.   @YellowMarble

P.p.s. my cat likes watching the marble races with me.  But right now she is beating her tail against my mouse and making it hard for me to do anything.   

 

Cute article. 

Literally LOL-ed at the comment: "I really watched a 8 minute marble race on YouTube".

5 hours ago, Marbleized said:

Lot's of time to separate my marbles.  Here are some of my Peltiers.  Pretty common ones, but I love the colors and especially love the ones with the bubbly transparent bases. (I kind of have some doubt about the third row sixth marble.  It's larger and the seam that is visible has more of a point than the other Pelts that I have. Maybe someone has some feedback on that one.) I love the "muddy' one that I just got. There's a little dark bluish thread that swirls with the ribbons.

 

Third row, 6th marble is in need of more photos.  You may have an NLR there.

Vitro for the group of four.

Master for the single marble.

No worries!  When you're dreaming about them, maybe time for a break (lol) but no worries!  

Not a pontil.  Pontils are on handmade marbles.  Yours is a machinemade marble.   You have some "drizzle" ... where the marble got hung up somewhere and a string of glass was formed and then it was rounded back into the marble.  

Jabo is modern marble.  They mostly made industrial marbles, like for paint cans.  But they made some play marbles also, called "classics".  Their classics were made from 1991 to 2007.  After that they made some fancier marbles in special contract runs. 

So, some people who are hoping for vintage marbles are unhappy to learn they have modern marbles.  

I'm still holding out hope for vintage myself, but the drizzle makes it a nice oddball, whenever it was made.

I split your new marble into a new thread ... and I put my own title on it based on the colors I was seeing.

THEN I noticed your description of the marble, "electric blue base white opaque Swirl" ...

So I'm seeing the colors differently.  
 

Whatever the colors, I'm confident that it is not Christensen Agate. 

Possibly Alley Agate.

I've seen some pretty great lips on marbles.  But smiles and pelts and just this style but different colors?   ... scavenger hunt time .... 

Seeing if this works ... 

 

Ooohhhhh!  2020 version!  

I hadn't looked in awhile!