Steph

Hello Ron. Welcome. You sure know how to get someone's attention.

Just joshin', David .... but it LOOKS pretty flamey to me! :)

The colors seem to have run out earlier than usual on Mike's.

Also, more conspicuously uneven. Yes, a little like flames randomly spitting. (:

Those are wild, Chuck.

Yours aren't too shabby either, Bill.

Will await response with curiosity. I don't know a safe way to do it.

(will also move this to the main forum for now, leaving a link in Restoration so I can pull it back after it has run its course)

That's a great vid. Creative people there.

Here's another pretty good one. PG-13 for language.

Happy Birthday Griff.

May your bait stay warm.

That's an awesome photo.

I dreamt last night that I found some nice Akro oxbloods out in the yard.

But they were Ann's.

Hi Chuck. Glad you made it!

lol. I figured that's what it was. But that's out of my area of confidence.

So you can see inside it?

So that give's me three makers, Christensen/Akro/Peltier. No bring in swirls to this mix.

Gary, I'm confused. Are you talking about swirls or not? There are more than 3 companies to consider for fiery translucent mibs. There are at least 5 that I know of, and I'm fairly sure there are more.

If you are speaking of swirls then some of the makers to consider when you have fiery translucent marbles are Christensen and Champion. I suspect there are others.

If you are speaking of fiery translucent marbles with seams, then SOME of the makers to consider are Akro, Pelter and Marble King. And I suspect there are others.

I thought you were talking about swirls, so I stressed the Champion possibility. However, with your last post you have me pretty thoroughly confused, so I guess I'll take a break now.

If by CAC, you mean Christensen, then no, not all fiery translucent swirls are Christensen.

There are more modern ones. As I said, I think they might be Champs. In any case, I'm sure they're not all as old as Christensens. But the newer swirls aren't called moonies.

Tiptoeing in to point out a couple of technicalities:

1. The name "moonie" was around before Christensen. I don't know if it referred to stone or to handmade glass marbles.

2. Akro used the name "Fire Opal" for more than their red marbles. (picture)

Tiptoeing back out now so as not to throw Gary's thread too far off track. I hope.

Yummmm!!!!!

Without photos it's tough but if they're swirls I think there's a decent chance they're Champions.

Happy Birthday. Getting a head start since I know you have plans for Saturday. Hope it's a beautiful weekend in Texas.

Would it be a snap to find 12 matched coral and green tri-lites to put in them? I'm still optimistic about those being original. Call me Pollyanna. lol

Sparkles!

you wouldn't call those helmets, Edna?

To me the marbles fit the pre-WWII time frame.

Wow. Nice 'un!

I am referring to torch made marbles BUT I talked to an "expert" that told me the veneer was applied to the machine made, white based marbles as they were dropping onto the rollers. I can't envision how that would be done - really risky considering the amount of heat needed to melt the veneer so it covered the white base.

How expert is your "expert"? What you're saying sort of makes sense - at least it's starting to make sense to me that one part of the stream might be more molten than the other, making it easier to control what part is inside and what part is outside .... But it's the first time I ever heard anything like that. Wondering how much weight to put on the idea.

I don't really mind being tossed to and fro on the waves of ideas. But I like to have some feel for how much is guesswork and how much is confirmable.

To answer your question, Steph, the information is inaccurate in several ways:

1) These marbles are not blown. Blowing glass is a very different art than manufacturing marbles. As sissydear (Edna? I'm horrible with names) said, there are marbles which are made from blown glass, but I can assure you that the ones on this site are not.

2) The marbles are not handmade (or "handblown," as it were). These come from a marble manufacturer in China. And while the site may state this in the small print (which it does NOT in the magazine I originally found it in, I may add), the fact of the matter is that the description itself is false.

Yes, they come from China. However, they are handmade. As Galen noted, the "handblown" terminology is a common misnomer for handmade marbles. I've seen it used for years (in old newspapers and such).

If I were trying to sell them, I'd describe them differently, but I'm not trying to sell them. So .... well, I'm out of anything else to say. But they are indeed handmade to the best of my knowledge.

It's not an ebay link.

How is the information provided inaccurate?

Under the details tab it tells where the item was manufactured. The "European origin" reference appears to be about the history of the game. Do you have proof that the historical information is inaccurate? The game could be of Chinese origin historically, but I don't know that. The seller artfully walks a fine but relatively/technically accurate line. imho.

Sweet CJ prizes!

I love those.

Wow!

No info for you. Just wow. That's somethin' else.