Steph

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!

Hello. Welcome. Could be a "slag" from the first third of the 1900's. Or it could be a "swirl" from the middle third of the 1900's.

Oooh. Good question! I think it's got a good shot at Akro.

Adeline's cats are mostly Vitro. If that's four vanes on her turquoise cat, I think that would be Japanese.

Hmmm Vitro is all I can think of for them.

Remember to check your oversized "game marbles" for signs of being handgathered. Won't be many of the yellow ones out there, I bet. But you could get lucky.

The Akro Agate Company (marbleconnection.com)

MFC. Not CAC. Akro started out as a business which purchased MFC in bulk and packaged them attractively for sale. A nice above-board marble-selling business which lasted for about three years. Then Horace Hill stole MFC's machine designs and glass formulas and took them to Akro which then set itself up in competition with MFC. In other words, Akro had a very unsavory start in the marble-making part of the business. I think that yellow is just a solid-colored marble, not slag, not electric. Yeah, most would call it a game marble now, but remember this would predate Chinese Checkers. These would have been considered nice marbles at the time. The greens would have been called "Oriental Jade". I don't know what colorful name the yellow ones would have had.