Steph

Yup, if you have Baumann's book there is a CAC Blue Devil in the chapter on Christensen and Peltier. In the 4th edition, the photo is on p. 130.

Link to the Christensen Agate version? I'm trying to find my copy of Baumann's Collecting Antique Marbles. I think there's a CAC Blue Devil in that. Do you have that book?

What Duffy said. Wonder who came up with that name. I looked it up and saw that one-incher listed on ebay ... is that the one you're interested in?

Check these out: http://www.landofmarbles.com/berr997.html

Painted ceramic and I believe they can be had for less than that starting bid. http://www.ebay.com/itm/140721484721 Some odd markings on it ... almost like hit marks or are those reflections? ??? Guess they're hit marks. Seller mentions flea bites. I don't know if I've ever seen one of those with damage before.

What smitty said ....

Thanks! I looked through that one and somehow missed that box.

I'm intrigued. But I don't know what to ask. Which auction was that?

Why European over Alley?

Marie, I think you may just have to wait until someone else comes across some. Maybe the next set will come with more clues about who made them. They're a mystery right now. No one is holding out on you. We'd help if we could. Promise! ( :

Yes. Pretty sure we've seen them up to something like 3 inches. For use as pump valve balls? Won't swear to it ... but I'm pretty sure. This is from an MFC advertisement. How big is size 10? That's probably not more than 1 3/4" is it? Hmmmmm. But I still think I've seen it. Click for larger view: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/mfc/MFCBooklet8pp10_11.jpg Edit: Never mind! Bill was posting while I was off looking ....

Marie ... Do you mean the package Galen posted here? http://marbleconnect...what-these-are/ The green ones look more wadded up than a basic Jabo "buttcrack".

That's a great video!

If the marbles are protected well enough there's nothing to take the shine away. Glass is much harder than air! I had a set of Akro ades and oxbloods from the 1930's that a very tidy little boy had stored in a 1933 World's Fair cigar box for decades. They were so pristine I didn't even know how to describe them when I put them up for sale. I got ... and sold ... them in my first few months of collecting. If there were any I wanted back from what I first sold, it would be the ones in that box. *sigh* When I expressed my surprise to the now old man's wife about how well preserved the marbles were, she said "You should see how nice his train set looks". Apparently even as an 8-year-old he took great care of his belongings.

Pretty figure ....... (that's my subtle thread bump )

I doubt that the "snotty" looking version would approach the value of a Cobra. I'm not sure about the striped transparent version. Interesting question.

Bumping. It definitely has an old look to it. But I don't know whose .....

Warning: much xenophobic and racist language here and even more at the source. My apologies for that. What "glass marbles of much beauty" do you think might have been coming from Japan in 1907? Source: http://books.google....MAAJ&pg=RA3-PA3 Thanks again to bumblebee for the lead.

Goldstone would be the original aventurine. The mineral known as aventurine was named after the glass. Sometimes the sparkle is intentional. Sometimes it isn't. People have intentionally overloaded art glass with the chemicals it takes to make the sparkle. I would have thought that the aventurine we see in marbles from the 1930's through 1970's was accidental but I am not sure. Jabo had it intentionally in the last few years but I think they got the aventurine premade from art glass suppliers, as opposed to mixing the chemicals from batch and getting the sparkle that way. Much ... but I don't think all ... aventurine is copper based. Here is a patent filed in 1947 which is about making green colored glass. http://www.google.co...id=abprAAAAEBAJ They mention an aventurine which appears to be chromium based, not copper. I think this patent is more interested in suppressing the aventurine but it notes that sometimes it is made on purpose.

That's unusual. Could it be a Peltier? ????

yowzer!

I still can't even contemplate using cat's eyes in a fish bowl. Congrats on your find!

Yellow Jacket ad, "red and yellow in every marble", so some which we call All-Reds may have been purposely sold as Yellow Jackets but might only command All-Red pricing, or some middle ground.

Besides the gorgeous marbles, it's very interesting to see the Japanese box in a collection with such an early date associated with it.