Steph

I second that motion!

Not glass??

What does the red one look like on the opposite end? and what do the ends of the green one look like? If it turns out that the green one doesn't look handmade after all, then don't let that one distract from the others! I just had a hunch that they might all be related to some other marbles I've been intrigued by.

To me that looks like a pontil on the red one. I'm going to move this thread to the main forum because sometimes handmade collectors don't make it to the ID forum. p.s., the colors and textures make me wonder if they could be from China.

I made a post here and it disappeared! Should I try again or give up? lol That's a fantastic whimsical piece. Any chance the marble is hollow?

Quick technical note: Akro wasn't producing marbles in 1910. When Akro started business they bought marbles from MFC. Their special gimmick was how they marketed the marbles. Akro put them in prepackaged sets of 5 with the Akro brand. This was a new thing. Akro started making marbles in 1914. I've only had one ballot box. It had black and white bennington style marbles. There were handmade ones in glass, with pontils, like mellonballs. I have that ballot box book. Might be a good day to finally read it all the way through. p.s., it mentions lots of different kind of ballot balls. Even cubical ones. Materials included wood, rubber, composition, and more. Here's a pic of ceramic ballot marbles:

Is it your next birthday yet? Or is this one still going on? Happy belated birthday.

Sorry to see you parting with them. Thanks for letting us know.

yah, he knows.

Marblealan auction ending July 21: http://cgi.ebay.com/350477743520 mrsmaniord auction beginning July 20: http://cgi.ebay.com/130550030530

Pink champagne glass is a winner.

Took me a bit to get past the image of the flame during this heatwave. After that I was on the edge of my seat. What does the final product look like? Ah, I think I've found it! http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/3419/Rembrandt

I wondered how smooth the colors were on the surface. Then I remembered I have guinea fragments even though I don't have a guinea. The color is very smooth and very thin on the surface (interesting). But one of my fragments is about a third of a marble. It has a core of color in the middle, plus all the color around the outside. Seems that should tell me something. But if it's talking I'm not hearing very well.

What do you think about the dark mark on this one? http://cgi.ebay.com/160619645670

Does anyone have any good close-ups of guineas to illustrate the discussion of how they might have been made? Thanks.

Those are sharp! (Thank you for sharing.)

I don't remember the all-red style name still being used in the 1980's. That is, I don't remember seeing it on a bag. I have no idea at all though what names the company used for the marbles in their internal documents. Thanks for the compliment, Edna. There are at least three people who post here occasionally who have a better grasp on Gladding-Vitro and Paris Mfg era packaging than I do. Sometimes I think wistfully about how much more I could piece together with a few hours in some folks' bag and box collections. *drool*

Bet it's something in hand. Looks quite yummy in pix. I bet the rainbow is even better in person. No idea when it was made. I've worked hard on learning Vitro ages and ones like this keep showing that there are pockets of mystery in my timeline!

On Mike's? I would have guessed real stone on his. Mighta said "limestone" but I'm not that confident at minerals. Maybe just whatever chips were knocked off of whatever other stones Germans worked with. .... would have been my guess.

Those Rainbow Clouds are biguns?

Nifty set of orbs, Roger. Plateful of candy. Awesome find.

If we're lucky we might get some of that info organized here. But the site which is dedicated to Jabo is Jabo Land. http://anythinggoes43567.yuku.com/ They have a lot of named examples listed there. Maybe more questions might bring more named examples.

What is the question? How the orange color is achieved?