Steph

OMG ... that fanny pack ..... lololol I learned how to use the selfie feature of my cellphone camera! Woohoo. I like this picture. It can serve my avatar and getting-to-know-you needs for at least a few years. And behind me is the collage that hubby made of all the cats who have been in our family for the past 30 years. ❤️ Right now my marble project is to sort the marbles in my attic. I keep finding marbles that I have put on my wishlist at various times and didn't remember that I already had. Last weekend I stayed up until 5 on Sunday morning sorting marbles! That was a major nostalgia trip back to the late night marble sorts from ten years ago. It's not something I can afford to do again any time soon, but it was nice to feel the old excitement for a bit.

Wow. OMG. Such heavy news. What a great attitude you have. Prayers!

I got one today in my small Wisconsin town neighborhood grocery store. "Fun Marble Drink"

I'm with "Great Sunburst".

Best guess based on a bit of swirliness visible, and on the presence of a bar code, I think the choices are: Champion, Bogard, or Jabo. Or an unknown manufacturer which had a marble machine for industrial purposes and provided slingshot marbles as a side venture.

I thought about Jabo, and if it had been .93 rather than .63 for the measurement, I wouldn't have hesitated to say so. But since it was .63 I decided it would be best to wait for different photos before I said any names.

I'm not going to be much use on a swirl so the following comment is just for general reference, not for this marble -- For general purposes, my brain needs normal daylight or flash photos for identification. If one set of normal light photos doesn't work, a second set in slightly different conditions could do the trick. The weirdest conditions I've ever found useful for id-ing is pictures taken underwater. Sometimes that helps get to the heart of what's happening in a clear-based marble, for example. Still -- usually -- for IDs -- just normal everyday lighting.

More pix in different light could help here.

an angry squirrel?

Thanks, Ron! That's a beauty. And it reinforces my hesitancy to firmly declare a particular company as the maker of any found-in-the-wild handgathered slag. Too many choices.

My memory is cloudy. I can't remember if I should have pix or not. This is a question I would fire off to Mike Barton if he were still with us. Obviously the very early Pelt production has been supplanted in our memory by the very distinctive feathered slags. I'll do a bit of browsing to see if I can come up with examples. I started a thread a couple of years ago about handgathered Pelts. We got a total of two examples in it -- no slags. But I just bumped it. Maybe be can pull some slags out of people's personal archives.

Anyone have any examples of Pelt's handgathered slags?

Fantastic demonstration! Today had been so educational on the forum.

The very clean 9 on #2 and #4 makes me lean toward MFC on those. #1 and #3 look different. The extra color in #1. The different texture and slight wobbliness of the 9 in #3. What do the cutline ends look like on all 4? That could be enlightening. If I sometimes sound less than definitive when I agree to call something MFC even on 9's as sweet and simple and clean as #2 and #4, it's because I am aware that MFC, CAC, Akro and Pelt all made handgathered slags. And then there are foreign versions. When I see a bit of wobbliness in the 9 I lean toward Akro. But I don't have a clue whether Pelt's handgathered pre-feathering version stood out in any way.

It's way past time that I should learn what "faceted" means on a glass marble. I in the mood to learn things this morning. Anyone have close ups of what facets look like on the antique marbles?

!!!!!! Amazing collection. Beautifully presented. My favorite video yet. Very educational.

Now you've got me separating out glowers! Hubby and his friends went off to a "collectables" rummage sale today. One of our friends picked up two jars of marbles for a low price and gave them to me. The fun kind that you wouldn't buy for yourself because they're "modern" or "common" but it's a still a treat to go through them when someone else brings them to you. Hitting them with a blacklight is part of the fun. I found several with an eerie blue glow. It is from some other chemical, not uranium. Maybe calcium? If you have bright uranium glowers next to them, the blue gets drowned out. But if you take out the bright marbles and let your eyes adjust, you get a pleasant effect.

MFC sounds good to me.

Happy Easter!

I think it's what's called an "Akron Roller".

I think this might be from the Akron Marble & Toy company.

Yes, it's lutz. I know that much. Yes, it would be copper. Lutz is copper. *looks around to see if she's saying anything stupid* *she thinks she's in the clear*

I used to. Then I mostly sorted them back into their specific makers' boxes.

I'm guessing contemp. But I don't know how smooth it's possible for old marble makers to having gotten the ends of their marbles. Mostly I'm posting so I will get the notification when someone else comments.

cute!