Steph

Great story! That's some good karma!

To me the surface looks sort of like enamel, like the decorations on some pennies my mother has from her youth. Was that ever done to spherical objects?

Fakes: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250691934462 That seller sells lots of green ones also. This is the seller with the eagle bennies. Here's one of their sketchy lots, including a green:

Not mine. Mentioned in the buy-sell-trade forum, but with only a day left on some of them, here ya go: http://shop.ebay.com/bucca/m.html?_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1

What a wonderful story!

Priceless!

Ahhh, memories: That was part of May's campaign to get her to be accountable. Might be interesting to check in a month or so to see if she's listing them in the 1970-to-now category. My bet is that she will still list them in the pre-1970 category. Her present listing is completely pared down in comparison to the one M!b$ quoted. This dislaimer probably protects her from any eBay actions no matter what category she lists in: "PLEASE REMEMBER THAT SOME OF THESE MARBLES MIGHT BE NEWER I'M NOT A EXPERT". The question I have is how does one get all the new marbles she has http://shop.ebay.com/tammysvintagemarbles/m.html?_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1 without knowing that they are new? How long can she go with that disclaimer? It could be mildly interesting to follow. As an academic exercise. Has she been selling before with a different but similar sounding ID? The name sounds familiar, but according to eBay, she didn't change from "mythisorthat" to "tammysvintagemarbles" until March of this year. All these sellers of antique Vacors and Jabos start running together after awhile.

I'm having trouble seeing that one as a Superboy. Oh sheesh, I didn't want to jump in on this one, and there I dun it. I just wanted to watch a superman-supoerboy thread for once. Darn. Well, I went awhile! LOL Back to observer now.

Bump. Just to keep this near the top. :-)

In case anyone didn't see her thread in the buy-sell-trade forum - she's got frogs! Frog Marbles In Need Of A New Home

Here it is. They are beautiful. Edna took wonderful pictures. http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/3247

Hi Pete. Just toss me the occasional patch and I'll feel better. Maybe one day one the UK collectors will start a UK board if only to let people say, "yes we're here!"

Idle Question For An Expert

On a related note, Rainbo wanted to say hi but he couldn't find your page.

thanks

oh gee. I just got it. DOH. I thought you were talking about cold temperatures make the glass less fluid.

Martin F. Christensen Apparatus for producing metallic spheres Patent number: 632336 Filing date: Mar 7, 1899 Issue date: Sep 5, 1899 Machine for making spherical bodies or balls Patent number: 802495 Filing date: Dec 19, 1902 Issue date: Oct 24, 1905

James Harvey Leighton Manufacture of solid glass spheres Patent number: 462083 Filing date: Mar 28, 1891 Issue date: Oct 27, 1891

Samuel C. Dyke Apparatus for rounding plastic-clay slugs Patent number: 432127 Filing date: Feb 6, 1890 Issue date: Jul 15, 1890 Machine for molding marbles from plastic material Patent number: 463418 Filing date: Jun 27, 1891 Issue date: Nov 1891

oh hey, I just opened the thumbnail, and I recognized the big colorful one on the left. You got that big group? Beautiful!

I'm going to go ahead and move this. Kinda like to have handmades in the main forum so people who don't frequent the ID forum can have a say on them. ( :

?????? My first thought would be German, but I couldn't argue against Czech.

nice job!

Oh hey, I just checked their feedback and see another box. The plot thickens. The marbles in this 2nd box are ID-ed as Japanese, and 1940's, though again with an unprofessional looking label. The marbles do look like they could be 1940's Japanese tho. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120595793667 He's not making much money on them. What if they're real and he quits selling because they're not profitable. What might we miss out on seeing!

If it were from here, I would have thought "wrong". I don't have much to compare it to though from Argentina. How would I know what boxes would have looked like in, say, the 1950's? The other marbles I saw from them were mis-IDed. Said to be 1950's though at most half were. But maybe they didn't know. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dozen-old-Swirl-Marbles-/12060147638