Steph

Check it out. http://www.greyhoundmarbles.com/

I saw 'em in the gallery. Lotsa eyes staring back at us. ( : I like that group shot with the assortment of colors too. The blue ones have a certain appeal.

The Dulite line lasted to 1956? http://books.google.com/books?id=0R4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63

I usually double check my links. Guess I didn't that time.

Someone asked me about this link, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110707465247 Big 'ol marble. What do you think about it?

Sure! The more the merrier.

I'd say yes on oxblood (though unintentional imo), but would suspect no on Christensen. Some of these from a Mega assortment Albert posted look sort of oxbloody: (click to enlarge)

In case you'd like to participate here are some links. The voting ends Monday. The gallery: http://www.pbase.com/glass_addiction/galleries Voting instructions: http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/3525

For your marble bibliographies, you might want to take note of this one. Debra Stanley-Lapic has an article in The Historical Review of Berks County, Summer 2011, pp. 122-128. If you don't have the August 1991 issue of Sports Illustrated, you might want that one too. I just learned her engagement was written about there! Pretty wild, huh? Here's a bit from the beginning of the article. Not sure how much to print here considering copyrights versus fair use and all, so I'm going with this teaser. ( :

How pretty.

Coooooool.

Interesting description. May we see the bottom? My vote would be Vacor on the marble.

What Craig said. Good luck Snyd.

Clearies can have seams. Ann pointed out one way to detect them: I thought she made an interesting observation. If the clearie has long pelt-like cut lines it would make it seem less likely to be a modern Chinese marble, for example.

Bo, here's the realer thread with the 1934 inventories. http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=12733

bump! p.s., whatever it is it looks like it should glow bright under blacklight.

I wasn't even sure I was seeing glass on the first one. Yours is scrumptious.

That is WONDERFUL!

All the pix are clickable. (maybe double click) . . . . . .

Would those be the Milky marbles from the inventory? Or do you think those are later than 1927? (I'd have guessed later.) And what are the other candidates for Pelt Milky mibs?

Some 1927 inventory sheets from Mike related to the Prima Agate question: (click to enlarge - might need to doubleclick for full size) . . . . . .

It will be a long time before I get tired of seeing your marbles, Winnie. I still have a lot to learn, plus your pix are so cool. And it will be lot longer before I get tired of seeing the glitter! Wowzer.

I knew what you meant, Winnie! I think I knew in all the ways you meant it. That was an awesome discovery you made that some marbles came from your country. But yes ... we do need to know more about all the marbles from outside of the U.S. And some of us sometimes say "Foreign" just because we don't know what else to say. We don't recognize it, so it must be foreign. lol. Yes, we have a lot more to learn.

Rich, all the marbles not made in Holland are foreign! hehe. LOL - Winnie, you posters from Europe are so very patient with us. I appreciate it.

Swirl ID-ing seems to be the most inexact of the present marble sciences. When people try to ID transparent swirls by maker it sometimes makes me laugh. Heck, maybe they're right in some of their more obscure guesses, but how can anyone be sure? To me there seems to be a lack of replicability to that part of the discipline. I want whoever I consult on that type of ID to be able to say "I don't know". If they don't have the security to say that with grace, then I will view them with some doubt.