Steph

I'm feeling Akro. A dug variety. Not 100% on it though.

Marble King Blue Boy

15/16". Went over $100 ... which made me glad ... though I was getting excited about maybe getting it for $40 ... right up until 13 seconds before the end.

... one day .....

Absolutely! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! I started the threads 8 years ago! And now I feel a little self-conscious about them being a hodge-podge. So thank you thank you thank you thank you for providing so much extra content !!

I don't know. If Josh didn't recognize it as Jabo then that would seem to rule Jabo out. So I'm trying to stay neutral. Fact is, I'm surprised by a .76" Champ, and I don't see your green in the group shot and I'm not sure about the match between the red shades. But .... trying to stay open-minded.

That last green one is wicked!

Tyger, tyger, burning bright .... Jess is gonna swoon over that snake.

Yup, you got it.

I got some marble mail too ... and one of them looked kinda corky. (A peewee bumblebee jorkscrew. )

Glad to hear it.

I'd guess after the 1950's. Peltier's conventional clear-based banana cat's eyes were introduced in the 1950's.

Thanks for helping me fill in the gaps. Did I mention that when I started the threads they were just gonna be for spare pictures which didn't fit in other threads? That made them sort of a strange hodgepodge. New folks passing through have probably hoped they'd be more comprehensive. And now they're getting there.

Quite Superior, no?

For reference and more examples here are the New Old Fashioneds which Josh posted in that thread.

And thank you again.

Just curious ... how do the purple marbles fit with the letter C? Oh, are they Chrissies? What about the pinkish one?

Coolness. I guessed glow on the left one. I didn't guess it on the blue. and the purple is pretty neat too (:

So one big question I have is how much glass would someone at Peltier have had to prepare to make even one banana cat eye. Did they have a small crucible for small batches of test marbles? Or would they have had to melt a whole lot of amber glass to be able to make any bananas at all? How small could a Peltier experimental batch realistically be?

Here are the marbles I'm usually talking about when I say WV swirl: Alley Agate Cairo Novelty Co. Champion Agate Davis Marble Co. Heaton Agate Co. Jackson Marble Co. Playrite Marble and Novelty Co. Ravenswood Glass and Novelty Co. Marble King and Mid-Atlantic could be added. And Alox complicates matters. I should also have suggested that Akro could possibly be added. I'd guess Akro made more swirls than Marble King did.

Well done. I do love your passion and focus! Admirable! Tell us more about the base on the left one ....

LOL ... smooth operator

Here's a mysterious marble. Such a pretty one yet so few are known. Joe McDonough discovered them in about 1989, in an auction for the family of a man who was said to work for Peltier before he moved to New Jersey. A total of 119 of the amber ones came with jars full of other colored bananas and colored clearies. Most of the ambers were mint. Some had a substance like melted rubber on them. There was one peewee in the lot. There seems no doubt that they are Peltier. Many notables including Alan Basinet weighed in when Joe was trying to confirm. I just marvel that there are so few when it's such a wonderful marble. How many might they have made? Where could they be hiding? This one is mine. :) And then here are some more. Joe's friend took this first picture and then the attached pics are earlier photos of the find. On Kodak paper.

July 1914 Butler Bros. From a 1972 publication compiled by Collector's Weekly: A Selection of Toys, Novelties and Postcards of 1914 Here's a little bigger version. I have a much bigger version if anyone wants it but it was over two meg by the time I converted it from pdf and rotated it. I need a more efficient image saver. (:

blast from the past