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Here's a sea glass example bythesea posted, converted to jewelry.

Here's a clump of marbles from the Chicago Fire of 1871.

source: Chicago History Museum at Flickr

Do you have any other good fire-damaged marble photos? Or water exposed marbles? I know someone has posted shipwreck marbles before. Also I think it would be good to have aquarium marble photos or beach marble photos on tap if anyone can dig some of those up. Or marbles which look different from having been buried.

Thanks.

p.s., yes, Nancy's melted marble from the gallery inspired this.

2017 EDIT -- I don't know if this has anything that's not mentioned above.  This was a couple months after what I wrote above, so maybe I was trying to write a clean draft and didn't get far, or maybe it was new stuff.   Well, it's another link to play with. 

About sulphides

Specifically about the name "Sulphide". I wondered how and when figure marbles came to be known as sulphides. Couldn't find much in my normal online search areas. I found just enough to make me suspect that the name came through the French.

1928

L'art et le goût sous la restauration, 1814 à 1830

Jacques Robiquet

Payot, 1928

"«Camées Incrustés », des soi-disant « Sulfures»" ===> "'Cameos Encrusted', with so-called 'Sulphides'"

(Translation by Babel Fish)

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=34850.0

Well, it's interesting to me. Maybe I'm the only one who has thumbed past this and never noticed. Sitting right there in the middle of American Machine-Made Marbles (p. 135) is an invoice for marbles Peltier sold to Alox in 1938. Solid colored mibs. 20 K each of six colors.

Anyone else get surprises like that when they go back through their marble books? Things which just couldn't have been there before because how could you have missed that? (lol)

Wow. I had totally missed the significance of the ordering.

(Thanks!)

2008

Here's a newspaper article on the restoration of the marble covered monument at a cemetery in Ravenswood:

Marble collectors pitch in to restore unique grave monument

By Greg Matics

The Jackson Star-News

Posted Oct 09, 2008 @ 03:23 PM

Be sure to zoom the photograph. It's a nice one.

Fun!

Sounds like a cool one! Sorry you didn't get it!

Ooooh, desktop icon camouflage.

That is one of the most luscious Akro pictures I have ever seen.

90 mibs in the GIF?

Could we have larger images of the views with the holes?

(edit: I agree with Galen and BJ.)

The one in Post #8?

Looking more WV swirl to me.

A is for Awesome

I'm going to bump this and move it to the general chat area.

Interesting MK there.

p.s., I've noticed the view counter sometimes says 0 even after a post has had an answer. Not sure what's up with that.

HERE LIES MY PROBLEM - I DON'T HAVE A "Z" EXAMPLE...LOL

Why not let your 2's do double duty?

I had a sharp cursive S once. It was so sharp that I thought it might have been that way on purpose. When I learned that it was probably an accident, I got rid of it. Doh!

I have a gorgeous Jabo Ace S which Bob sent straight to me when I made the mistake of admiring it. ( :

I'll have to find a picture. It was my avatar before Nilly.

Edit: Bob posted it! That's my S! It shimmers.

I saw that marble. But for some reason I didn't want to ask Duffy the question which came to mind. Not sure why.

(Wondered if it was a Scarlet Orgasm. And I couldn't ask that. ... for some reason.)

Hiya. I'm going to go ahead and shift this over to the main chat area so that more eyes can be on it. I'll leave a link to it so that I can remember to pull it back when the discussion seems to have run its course. ( :

p.s., looks pelty to me.

p.p.s., nice photoshop clean up. wow

This is a thread to announce and to welcome a new moderator.

Steve, you're #3 on the ban list. (lol, just kidding)

Time frame? How close do you want it? After 1990 is a start.

Why did I mention Fenton cullet? Because you mentioned the glow. I think the Fenton cullet explains the uranium glow. But I'm not certain.