Steph

Alley to me

That's not ringing a bell with me. Do you have a picture of one?

Some more examples of machine-made Asian marbles with shear marks which are sometimes mistaken for pontils. Seams, cutlines and poles, and photo tips - Marble I.D.'s - Marble Connection

Those are machine-made cutlines, not pontils. The marble-making machinery has shears. The shears cut off the globs of molten glass which become the marbles. That gives a cutline on the top and the bottom of the marble. Or if the glass is more of a stream than a glob like your last marble, it will result in a swirl. There will still be two cuts on a swirl. But sometimes the cut marks will get wrapped up inside the marble so you can't always see it. But with your first two marbles, we have a nice, clear top and bottom.

Welcome to Marble Connection. The first two are modern Asian machine-made marbles. The last is also modern. Mexican or Asian.

The question that you added ... I don't know how to answer it. American handgathered slags could be called transitionals, but aren't. If there are American marbles currently known as transitionals, I'm unaware of them.

The "transition" is from being completely handmade to completely machine-made. The transitionals are half and half.

Transitional refers to being handgathered and machine-rounded. Not a transition to another style of marble. Handgathered American slags could be called transitional, but for some reason we tend to leave the transitional name for the Japanese ones which are basically the same style of marble as the American slags. In my mind I estimate 1930's for the Japanese version, but that's an old estimate I adopted a long time ago. I understand there is new research that may give more precise answers. Maybe someone can link that up for you.

(because it does look handgathered to me even though I can't quite make out a cutline)

I'm trying to decide between American slag and Japanese transitional.

Sunset does seem to be a good possibility. It might be one of those first generation versus second generation situations. That is, whether the color is below the surface in a way that could pass for Master or whether it's on the surface in a way that looks blatantly foreign.

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That's what I was thinking! Your move, Josh!

Interesting coloring. I don't have one like it for sure. Congrats!

Add me to the Akro list.

Agree on it being oxblood. Assuming Akro. But am aware of the existence of Alley oxblood swirls and Jabo special runs that resemble Akros.

ooooohhhhh

I'm leaning Jabo.

I'm not seeing Pelt. I see some colors which would fit Pelt Multicolor but also other colors too, and am not seeing Pelty structure. What size is the marble?

Ugh. Looked at their completed listings and they've made quite a lot of money on these.

'nite ... I too am pooped. Planning on a relaxing weekend. I hope you have the same.

That's impressive ... even if it does look like a medieval torture device.

I have no one. I just hope things are labelled well enough by that time for someone else to be able to dispose of them well. I do have a few small family heirlooms that I'm hoping to send on soonish. Sadly, I've forgotten things my mother told me a thousand times. Things I didn't think I needed to write down 20 or 30 years ago are gone from my head now. That little 1800's dress I've been meaning to send on to one of my brother's children? All I can say now is that it's from my mother's side of the family even though she told me many times exactly which great great grandparent it used to belong to.