Steph

Do you think the 2nd auction has already been purchased by someone? It's possible that it is "no longer available" in part due to your message. Possibly the owner decided to take them off the market until they could reassess what they had. It would be nice if they responded to you to let you know.

It's the little kid laughing along with the grownups and then he suddenly realizes he doesn't know what they're all laughing at.

Maybe so. There was an illustration of mica, captioned as "snow-flake". I didn't see snow-flakes mentioned in the text of the article, so maybe that's what silvered referred to.

I was just skimming through the 1883 Robert's article, "Marbles and Where They Come From", and saw a reference to "gilded and silvered marbles". I don't remember registering that sentence before. 1883 struck me as earlier than I last remembered seeing lutz mentioned. But obviously I'm not sure. Almost every time I go back to the old sources I pick up something new. Why don't I do it more often? lol p.s. ... what might the "silvered marbles" be? That's not ringing a bell.

For the record, the term "peewee" (or "peawee") was in use by 1883. See "Marbles and Where They Come From," by A.W. Roberts. They're "no larger than a good-sized marrowfat pea".

I don't have any in hand, but I was under the impression that marbles sold as peewees could be a little bigger than 1/2" back in the day.

oh that's a lot of nice pix

They did yellow and brown in 5/8". Yellow, brown and green together?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140921610346 Well, it's a pretty 'un.

Did that come from Bulgaria? Wonder what else we might someday see from the Eastern Bloc.

I'll vote Jabo. Is that the style they call the Black Eyed Pea? I believe it is the correct size.

Thanks for sharing the news.

"If we know so little about German marbles,how on earth could we know something about Bulgarian marbles." Agreed!

I'm hoping we can let that be the last time the r-word gets used. I cringed when Ronnie used it but I'm trying to err on the side on not censoring. Might have to excise part of this thread and send it to the BOI/SZ. Hope not. It's a possibility though. Good thread for the most part.

Ooops, I forgot to link to the ad. http://prodavalnik.com/trsya-stkleni-topcheta-limki-kato-tezi-ot-snimkite-ot-edno-vreme-sots-vreme-imashe-gi-vsyako-srelbische-i7688737 The description on the photo(s) in that ad translated to: LOOKING GLASS BALLS LIMKI made in Sliven OF FURNACE FROM ONE TIME DURING SOC Wiki says Sliven is the 8th largest city in Bulgaria. What might "SOC" be? [Edit: Looks like Socialist era ... 1946 to 1990?] [Next edit: Limki is apparently a Bulgarian marble game (link) and might also be the name used for the marbles themselves (link) ]

I just posted in another thread about a Bulgarian movie title which translated into "Glass Marbles". The Bulgarian title didn't show up right when I pasted it here. But it might useful for future reference as a Google search term. Here's one page which showed up today. The Google translator makes it look like a "want to buy" ad, complete with buyer's email. (Or possibly the ad is from someone wanting to sell but the comment came from a potential buyer.) Maybe it's a Bulgarian marble collector.

Check out the reference to "Glass Marbles" here. http://en.wikipedia....oyanka_Mutafova It's from 1999. I tried to copy over the Bulgarian name but it looked like it wasn't going to show up right.

Very interesting.

Anyone know what you get if you order a hot tamale in my part of Wisconsin? When I first moved here I was getting impatient with all the bland food and got kinda excited when I saw hot tamales on the menu. And then I saw that "hot tamale" meant sloppy joe.

So then just a single red patch? I thought I heard people say that when I first heard of Black Widows, but then I heard it had two patches. So ??? I'm trying to remember where I got my two-patch marble which was called a Black Widow. I can't remember if it came from Jill Spencer or not. I think it did. But I can't remember for sure.

Here's an example of a Juedemann ground murrini marble: http://www.pbase.com/bkbowden/cj48 Some of his later works are here: http://www.glasskitchen.com/port/ Here's his facebook page if you want to catch up with some of his more recent work https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-Juedemann/110312805788327

"Ground" is the word which came to mind when I saw the marble in the OP. I don't really know the process so I didn't want to say anything. I have an awesome ground marble from Chris Juedemann. (Repeating that disclaimer that "at least I think it was ground". Edit: yes, definitely ground. I looked it up.) Sides as fascinating at the ends. Sweet.