Steph

Next up! America's Got Talent! This girl ... I woke up with that song in my head for five days straight. Didn't wake up with it in my head this morning ... took an hour or so for it to return to my mental playlist. Just wow.

DAS, the Warnelis Trophy Run, 5/31/16 Cannot do these justice. Sometimes you need more sunlight to bring out the colors. These are pretty in the sunlight but even prettier in the dimlight ... like a goblet of brandy. Except you need to bring it into the light to see the lutz -- you may be able to see a spray on the bottom row, 2nd from the right.

pssst .... it's getting close to time for red, white and blue ....

thingamajig ... that word would work with Scrabble. But alas I only have 7 letters of it in my tray and don't see the rest of it on the board.

Are we supposed to be seeing something in particular? Or just enjoying? I feel I'm missing something ....

Love the blends, and the observation about opalescence ... not something I expect from Vitro.

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Yes they are cool. I'm still not that familiar with the ones with so much white in them.

Now I understand the question you asked yesterday about Shell's soft swirls.

I like it's weirdling ways.

Congratulations! It's beautiful! So glad it found its way home! And the other marble is especially pretty too.

Most, if not all of their marbles are vintage. That's one more plus for it being vintage. I can't remember if I read about what the crazing means. And of course I have no idea if that is a good price. It's in line with the prices in Baumann's book, but I don't know if those prices are still relevant, or if they take crazing into account, for instance.

Exactly 2"? I have pulled out my copy of the 4th edition of Collecting Antique Marbles, by Paul Baumann. (This edition has material on carpet balls.) It says that if the bowl has regular lines that's a sign of modernity. Your bowl has irregular lines. So that's promising. The name of the style might be "Double Cross". That's all I have at this time. Purely out of the book, and only from a glance in the book. So now I'll wait for other input.

Ooooh!

Sounds like a good explanation to me. Maybe it got stuck on the machinery and two pieces were drawn out, then flattened back in.

Bubblegum is good!

oh man, I miss my tin litho cars. But I'll start fresh after the move, now that I know what I like.

awwwwwwww, sweet.

Hello, Bert, ol pal. Well, that's a potpourri all by itself. Does the marble dish have a story?

Yesterday I felt like some marbles, so I made me a few .... you do know how fun that sounds, right? Did this come off the Miller machine? The white one especially looks handmade. Very interesting. And lovely.

The Vitro-Agate Company, The Marble Museum's Guide to the Glass-Agate Company, 2005, by Chris Cooper and Michael Johnson Very limited run. My copy says "14 of 500" but I think that maybe only 200 were produced after all. I have just remembered where I put mine ... so let me check for dates on those ads. On p. 31, I see 1954 for the last ad there, with the bags and boxes. I don't see the cat eye ad, but it's gotta be near that time.

That is an exceptionally cool marble, Alan. Must be fun in hand.

Cute ... looks like a good place for other toys.