Steph

Someone posted an Alloway he has for sale. I took this clip out of his pic to post in a "what do you think this is" thread elsewhere ... you know ... the ones with pictures of things like the hairs on an insect's leg and you're supposed to guess where the offbeat photo came from ..... So anyway, I thought it was so beautiful I wanted to share and maybe you could add some interesting clips. (p.s., here's a link to the Alloway in case anyone wants to see the whole thing or maybe buy it: link)

Cherokee Games @ Cherokee Heritage Center http://www.cherokeeh...okee_games.html

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Thanks for sharing! Love seeing all the names and faces. Oh and the marbles are nice too!!

Vitro cat's eyes. That color might have aventurine. fwiw. I'd place the date just a little later than that. Just a little. Vitro cat's eyes were introduced in 1954. Those look like an early-ish version but maybe not the very earliest. Not certain though. Neat item.

Hello. Welcome. If you go for the template over the calipers (or along with) be aware that some templates are inaccurate for drop through measuring of small items. And I think intentionally so. I heard that they make room for the width of a pencil lead inside. Or something like that.

It's awesome that they've made this a lifelong sport.

I don't know what ya'll are talking about. My birthday is in February! Er, I mean, thanks everyone. Thank you very much. No one is late. Al is right. Dani, I bet you saw me thank George on Facebook for his good wishes. He sent me an early birthday greeting since he doesn't get back to Facebook that often.. Today is hubbers birthday. So I guess I should go be nice to him or something.

Cool beans.

Hi Sue. Happy Birthday to Bert.

eye popping!

Somewhere along the way I heard that "mib" was the Latin word for marble. But is that so? That seems like some pretty esoteric vocabulary for people to be aware of - to know what Romans called their little round toys? lol. Maybe it's the Latin word for the stone?

For handmades, I'd definitely recommend Paul Baumann's, Collecting Antique Marbles. I have the 3rd and 4th editions. Was happy with the 3rd. Added the 4th because of its section on reproductions.

That would be great! Thank you.

This World's Fair Master agate box was recently posted at LOM. I remember seeing one before, pretty sure. And/or a similar box with two agates in it. I'm pretty sure it was posted here when it came up on ebay a few years ago. But that's the last one I remember seeing? Just how rare are these? Anyone here have one ... or have pix of one? Thanks!

That really is cool, Rich.

I saw the distortion but thought some of the marbles were just out of round! Your seeming pride in your footballs made me want to go fish out some of the out-of-round ones I had shoved to back shelves! I guess the football being in the back right corner on each photo might have been a clue that something was amiss. Sorry - no idea about how to fix distortion.

Lotsa lobes: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9134078 http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6155550

One dictionary definition is that a lobe is "a rounded projection". So I think that's what you're looking for with the lobes. 4 lobes being 4 bulges in the core. I think "lobes" are different from "panels". I mention that because I think I've seen some people describing 4-panel onionskins as 4-lobed onionskins.

I wouldn't have been able to tell on all of them individually, but the bright white on some of them in the foreign rows tipped me off. ( :

Is the red one oxblood? I posted a link at Glass Addiction asking them to have a look: http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/3594/Marble-ID-SOS

That's what I thought you said. Still keeping my same guess. Guessing foreign on top row and 3rd row down. ( : ... so completely opposite of Rich's guess?

#1 (top) and #3? (Which I'm only guessing because you said there were two.) Edit: Silly me. I didn't say what I was guessing those rows were! I was guessing they were foreign!

Examples from Morphy: Divided core: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9133893 Single ribbon: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9133892 Naked ribbon: http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1733073

Galen, did you mix up "naked core" and "coreless"? When I first saw the question I was thinking the same as you but now that ZZ has posted I'm like "oh right!" In Collecting Antique Marbles, Baumann allows for ribbon marbles to have either one or two ribbons. (He says it's debatable with 2 ribbons would count as a double ribbon or a divided core.) He also seems to apply the term "naked" only to the ribbon style marble - when there are no outer bands, like ZZ says. (So then would Baumann apply the word naked to a double ribbon?) And then the divided core has more parts inside. Baumann says the production style of the divided core is similar to that of the ribbon core. But a divided core is still considered a different type from a ribbon core.