Steph

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.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/marboman/m.html

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.

Are we Allowaying? Yes! Yes, we are Allowaying.

Don't call my marbles ugly! nice carving

P.s., while I'm in the neighborhood, here is another ad Mike posted in the Mostly Pix thread which we don't have in this thread yet. I might be able to find the date for the ad on my own, maybe in the Vitro book, but would welcome anyone jumping in with that. (Offhand I'll estimate 1953 to 1955 for the ad until I look it up.)

I get the same general impression that you are forming. I don't know how to narrow it down. Once started to collect pictures of all sorts of bag headers to try but that project got beached. I think that this is a very early Cat Eye ad. Migbar posted it. Maybe he can confirm. (Edit: for now I'll estimate 1955 for this ad.)