Steph

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.

no seams...3/4 ish...this would not have had a seam since the frit appears to be added to a clearie.

Clearies can have seams.

Ann pointed out one way to detect them:

Also check them under black light. Both of mine have partial, faint orange luminescence on their surfaces, which reveals what looks like typical Pelt seams / cut marks / whatever you want to call 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)

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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)

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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.

Any ideas on how to get a reliable ID for a marble?

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.

Bo, have you spent 10,000 hours with them? That's one rule of thumb for what it takes to be an expert.

Here's an interesting read from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert

What a delightful question.

Time doesn't necessarily bring expertise but it is needed for perspective, and can you be an expert without perspective?

The big 4-oh? No way!

Have a great day!

I wrote Ray. He is "very sure it is/was one of [his]".

It should have a signature on it unless someone has polished it off, which he said has been known to happen.

Neat pic. I don't know the game but I've long been interested in the subject of adults playing marbles.

They remind me of Jackson Pollack.

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/pollock/

They are Vitros from the 1930's. The company name was Tri-Lite.