Steph

It's fun to look at marbles again through the eyes of someone who hasn't yet been conditioned to value the standard "collectible" makers and styles.  For a moment it helps me to remember what it used to be like for me.  

I work at a hotel.   It's still open for now. The attached restaurant has now closed except for carry-out or room service.  The hotel management is playing it by ear -- we have many longterm guests working construction jobs in the area.   My 72-year-old coworker just had her last day until the threat passes. 

Sooooo, anywaaaaaay,  I don't know what I'll be doing next week.  

P.s., yay flute!  I tried to pick it up again after a long hiatus ... but my CATS objected and so I gave it away. 

But we _do_ have a small tuba in the attic ..... hmmmmmm .......

Well the UV stuff might be important in a way ... could be from Vitrolite cullet, for example.   But first step is letting us see as close as possible what the marble looks like in hand in normal light. 

Don't worry about the UV stuff.  Just try the normal light picture in different lighting.   Maybe in a room with a different set of reflections.  Do you have something big and metallic overhead?  Something was making a wide silver reflection on the marble which interferes with us seeing it as it is.  

  

Mmmmm ... spam and rice doesn't sound half bad .... I could see it with teriyaki sauce.

Take care.

You are freaking me out!  

Where is the silver coming from?

I guess it's a reflection from above ?

Well a dark purple base with a white swirl  _is_  a familiar combination.  But I think a lot of WV swirl makers did it. 

"purple clear base"?  

As in transparent purple?  

It sure looks like I'm seeing the silver from behind the marble coming up through the marble.  


 

black and white ribbons in a clear base?

That's different.  I like but it's not ringing any bells at all.

That's beautiful! 

I was wanting to make something small.  I love your concept. 

I'm leaning toward Peltier.  

The pattern in the colors isn't looking stereotypically Peltier to me in these views.  But the colors themselves and other aspects of the structure look Pelty. 

  

I went to high school in Alabama ... but that was 40 years ago.  

I had a sweet cursive S on a marble.  When I asked someone if it was on purpose, they said no and I was disappointed.  I didn't realize that it was cool with or without the design being intentional.  So I let it go back into the big bowl of marbles, and I'm pretty sure it finally went away.  

I'm strongly leaning modern but not 100% there yet.  

p.s., other than "Akro corkscrew", I don't know a name for that favorite one of yours.   It's not a common one -- it doesn't fit into the basic styles that I know the Akro company names for.  Very pretty.  

Hi Bonnie. 

Welcome.   I haven't figured out how to make comments on photos in the gallery.  Used to be able to.   Something changed. 

If you go to any one of the subforums, such as the Marble ID forum, you should see a button near the top which says "Start Topic".  That should get you to where you can paste or upload a few marble pics for discussion.

You do  some nice marbles, I can see from the gallery.


 

No worries on my part.   Good luck in the endeavor.

Welcome! 

A nice vintage assortment.    

Specifically I think this is generally known as a "German Striped Transparent".  

oooooh ...  

vintage European

sweet pattern

For anyone who might want to visit Joemarbles.com but who isn't able to access it (which I'm currently not able to), plug the address in at the wayback machine:  https://archive.org/web/


Edit: Joemarbles.com is currently back up.   A welcome sight. 
 

I just noticed on Joe's facebook page that the news I had been dreading had been posted.  

It appears that he lost his battle with cancer on January 29.  He leaves a big, inspiring family and many friends -- and he helped many marble collectors with Joemarbles.com.    

Here is his obituary. 

http://www.hamptongentry.com/obituary/terry-street-jr?fbclid=IwAR1MgBioQSXKV5ajzF0_smIM9swmJFr7ybRemhdktZEr-rQPGw049v81N_M

 

On the right, I'm with you on Akro, with the niggling thought that someone might recognize it as an Alley example.  It's special for sure. 

On the left, I think just a game marble.   Tossable.

I continue to be surprised by  things I find as I sort through old boxes.  The clues on the mailing envelope point to me having bought this booklet on eBay in 2008.   

That's the $64,000 question.  

Not sure if the marble community  still has anyone doing that.