Steph

Modern Asian marble on the bottom. On the top ??

that's amazing on so many levels. It looks like some exotic plant.

Those Leightons are how I first fell in love with eggyolk and oxblood.

I'm seeing some older marbles in the mix also. First picture, bottom right is a WV swirl. 2nd picture, bottom left, could be a WV swirl. First picture ... bottom row ... 2nd from right ... more views?

Hey, watch those cinders!

What they said. Nice Master Sunburst.

It's cold here. Feels like October. I love the cold in fall and winter but I don't want it yet. I'm still nurturing my summer garden. But I'm counting my blessings. I hadn't been watching the news enough. I just found out that my friend in Baton Rouge has had 30 days of rain, and the Harvey rains on top of that are more than they can take . I only noticed that Harvey had headed to "West Louisiana" and so I thought she was in the clear. Didn't know how bad it was already.

yeah .... not so good!

Interesting that it's heavy, and maybe silvery inside, and yet not magnetic. I don't know the material. Still guessing decorative. Two different kinds of steelies were marketed for sale as toy marbles -- one hollow and one the basic solid ball bearing. Not aware of other metal balls being marketed as toy marbles.

I'll guess it was made for a decoration. I'm not familiar with play marbles made out of that material. The second picture makes it look like the brass coloring might be a coating. Is it heavy?

This thread reminds me why I love marbles. *sigh*

The dark edge could be a chemical reaction between the red and the blue.

Peltier Peerless Patch A desirable marble, from around 1930

That's luscious. Yes, the green flakes shimmer. They might be mica. (Or they might be some other thing which was _called_ mica -- I never got that straight.)

Ha! Even your ugly marbles are pretty!

Gotta love some Akro ox. This picture turned out okay --- Jabo Last Dance

Go out into the sun and rock the marble back and forth a little and see if you see sparkle. (Or a bright light inside would do.) Sometimes the copper using to make green will ... aw heck, I don't know the process ... but sometimes it will sparkle.

What size are we looking at? The three in the 2nd picture look new to me. (After 1990.) In the original picture, the top middle and the bottom right look intriguing in that single view. The top right looks modern to me also, in the single view. Other views could maybe change my mind.

Hiya. they came out easily ... I did toss some dry blossoms alongside a fence to see if any start on their own next year. I'll start a number of these inside. For fun. And to get plants earlier next year than I had this year.

Hi. Welcome. That's a coincidence. Nice one though! Some people build alphabet sets just for fun. Such a definite capital R would not be easy to find. It's a keeper. My first guess for maker is Alley Agate, from the 1940's.

Thanks, Ron. keeperthread

By george, I think he's got it! So that was the case for many of the swirl companies. And that gave the "lower quality" glass we often see in the swirls. The slag companies made their own glass from the raw materials, and that's why we sometimes think of the slags as being nicer and more solid than the swirls.

A piece of Heaton cullet. I think the white came from Vitrolite. (Posted in another thread today, so I figured I'd add it here.) Blacklight! ... this picture came out pretty well. Gotta remember which settings I used.

It's Vitrolite cullet. Not Vitro. Actually ... drumroll please ... the Vitro marble name came from the Vitrolite glass company name. The founder of Vitro used to work at Vitrolite. And his initial plan when founding the new company was to use Vitrolite cullet to make Vitros. As far as I know only the white glass in my Heaton clump came from Vitrolite. The blue glass game from a different source. And then those two colors were joined together at Heaton.

Bonus ... way off topic ... Vitrolite cullet is known for fluorescing sometimes. So here's a blacklight shot of my Heaton cullet.