Steph

Vitro Tiger Eye on the right. Maybe Akro on the top. Yeah, that's where I'm leaning. Ugh on the bottom. Hmmm on the left.

One vote for Master.

I need to get to that section of the market.

I agree with slag. I also got a bit of a sense of it maybe being handgathered. The second photo seems like it might be showing a cutline. What does the opposite end look like?

With the black part, even though it's light, and the texture of the white, I'm wondering about a Vacor Wicked Owl here. If I'm on the right track there that would mean the pontil-looking part was some other kind of damage. That would also make it modern. The Wicked Owl style is still for sale at Land of Marbles. http://www.landofmarbles.com/mega510.html

how cool is that

I'll go against the flow a little bit here. I'm not seeing the ribbon structure I expect on Veiligglas, so I'm keeping the door open a crack for an American slag.

Thanks, John, for straightening me out on the name. I knew it had to be one of the good ones.

thank you!

It's very nice to see the swirl motion and the glass quality. I LOVE the transparent red.

Christensen Agate or Peltier? Or handmade?

Does this count as "fancy"? (Just looking at Craig's word for marbles which won't show up in his CAC project. http://marbleconnection.com/topic/22088-cac-slag-colorsize-help/)

It's bias talking now, but I picture the prettier ones as being older. Maybe 60's. That's a shot in the dark for me. I can't swear they're not making any like them now ... I just am not aware of it. Winnie may actually have enough clues to piece together a decent record of their evolution. As to "where", I picture Japan first for the machine-mades ... starting back in the 20's or 30's. Then in the 50's I know that Hong Kong joined in. Then I go to Taiwan. And then China proper.

LOL ... yeah ... ebay description watching is a popular pastime!

Georgeous blending and streaming. beautiful.

Nice observation about the font. Will be interesting to see some of those up close. The white in clear reinforces my shyness about identifying transparent swirls. I'm pretty sure I have a Jackson which looks like those. Will be interesting to see if there are any major differences ... or if this is more evidence that for some we really can't say if we don't know what bag they came in.

Oh, I couldn't avoid it. I've been calling her a couple of times a month for a long time now. Sometimes more often. I would talk to her for about half an hour and to my dad for a few minutes. Sometimes I would talk to Dad first because it was easier to have a conversation with him when I hadn't used up all my stories on Nancy. But mostly I would talk to Nancy. So it would be horrible, horrible, horrible, unthinkable, for me to stop calling her. But still very strange not to have her ask, "So would you like to talk to your Dad now?" That was the big gaping hole in the routine that I was afraid would be hanging there. But it was okay.

hmmmmm .... If multiple strands sorta running from pole to pole, then I'm leaning foreign, with Master as the second choice. If a swirl with more random hither and thither movement ... I don't have a guess.

yes ... nick ... I think a nickname used by real kids back in the day ... not just a collector's name.

^^ that again heavenly

Swirl structure? Or ribbons running from pole to pole?

Exactly!