Steph

Are they rainbo types or NLRs?

To me they look like they're right on the cusp.

A darning egg?

Worth waiting for! Beautiful!

Pearlized Patches

I couldn't easily find any pearlized patches to show someone, so I hunted and finally found this classic from Patry. Here's her description with the photo.

These are among my favorites of patched marbles.

The green patches, look like thick, green, frosted, finger nail polish.

Most of these, that I have seen have annealing fractures in the patch and typical Peltier bubbles.

Vitro is a little newer than the others if I recall, yes? Or they lasted longer? My marble history isn't 100% up to snuff, I fear.

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Vitro also gets a good mention most times, but their marbles generally don't run as high.

1932-1992. Longest lived U.S. marble company that I can think of. Their name even lives on as a legal entity under Jabo. (If I'm not mistaken.)

That most of their marbles are so affordable is part of their charm. New collectors and longtimers can both find something to hunt for.

How about this: we can delete this poll and create a new one if we all come to a consensus as to what should be at the top.

Nah, it's okay. You learned something making it. And you got some good comments. If you really really want it closed, I think I can do that. Don't see any harm in it staying open though.

I just had to pull a major edit. Doh. I thought I finally had those "cat's eyes" figured out.

Well, thanks everyone for playing! I got the Pelt answer I came for. I better quit before I'm too far behind.

Yeah, I think it's a challenge to figure out what to take away from it. DID Pink or Sellers know something about those handmade marbles we don't know? Or did they maybe not understand how the handmades were made?

And what about those "first American glass marbles"?

Also we've discussed that line of weird "cat's eyes" before - at length in at least one past thread - after which I think people walked away without feeling there were answers. But someone mentioned they might actually be what were called cat's eyes back then, maybe the ones Vacor made in the 1940's. So there might be more good info in the article than I at first imagined. Just gotta pick it out. . . . . Edit: Someone had actually attributed the Vacor claim to Cathy Runyan, but I just emailed her about it and she said no, those weren't the Vacors she saw at the factory. Darn it, I thought I had figured those out.

I can't choose. I'm still trying to get over Vitro being left out of the top group.

Well, the info might have come straight from Sellers Peltier. Supposedly some of the marbles did. And some from Berry Pink.

But even marble company owners have been known to make mistakes about things which happened 3 decades earlier. So I still approach the info with caution.

Here's the rest of the article joemarbles posted:

(The article gets the date wrong for when the first marble machines were made.)

Muchas gracias. 1955 is still quite a ways removed from 1928, so I appreciate 2nd and 3rd opinions.

I just reread this article from 1955. It says Peltier introduced "Rainbows" in 1928. Mike also mentioned that date once in connection with Pelt's "agates". So is this a pretty solid date for the NLR's?

Posted a while back by joemarbles:

(pretty big, might need to click twice for full size)

Thanks.

On 1/5/2011 at 1:01 PM, nancy cooper said:

What is horsehair I wonder? Nancy

Thin brownish strands of color. Check out:

http://marbleconnection.com/topic/14082-ohhhwilllburrrrrrr/

http://marbleconnection.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=8636

I wanna see!

What size are the images?

Maybe you can add them in the gallery and then use the address there to post 'em here.

Thanks ever so much for the graphic. :ph34r:

So just plain historical value doesn't do it for ya? So like if someone offered you 2000-year-old marbles but they looked like M&M's you'd say no thanks?

Those are some fresh looking bananas. Mmmm, potassium.

Please let us know the secret to your longevity!

If you ever get tired of photographing them and just want to clean out the cabinets ......

lol - thanks for sharing your joy! Happy New Year!

Very interesting. What year was that, do you remember?

the blue and gold - so nice

I could swear I could see into the marble in the first views you posted. Looks a little cloudy but it looks like I can see into it and there's sort of a white middle section.

Kevin, does that have a large nearly-transparent area?

Or without bidding, the seller can't count on the excitement to drive the price up. They might price things lower to help the inventory move.

Not that I've been to shows - and I can't know what drives the prices - but I'm pretty sure that I have heard people say more than once that they could typically get marbles such as sparklers and bricks for lower prices at shows than they were selling for on the bay.