Steph

Not a magic marker mib but those strokes sure look close to magic marker mib strokes. pretty wild . . . (source) (I'm going to win the set so no one bid, 'kay? lolol)

Bump. I also posted it at GA. Hope that's okay. Surprising for the ones with signatures to go unID-ed. http://glasswizzards.yuku.com/topic/2787

Dustin is at 70 today. Guess it's an okay time for a bump. Two more weeks of voting!

Alabama? New Jersey? wait, wait, don't tell me. I can figure this out!

uh sorry, Paula. I was too busy shuddering over machinery to reload before I posted. I've only just now recovered enough to see that you posted minutes before me. (now that I'm back from a therapeutic session of playing with kitty cats)

There's was a patent submitted in 1928 which talks about transparent base glass and it talks about controlling the ribbons somewhat. Mentions "one or more" openings through which ribbon glass could go. I don't know whether this patent was for slags or for more multi-color marbles or whether it was even ever used. It's one which has been mentioned before in possible connection with feathering because it talks about jiggling the glass somehow. As curious as I am about it I'm reluctant to talk about it 'coz it's a patent - for a machine *shudder* - and it could be years and years before I understand it, at least without some help. So, my general question right now, which I hope is connected enough to Ann's question, is/was something like Are those patents worth studying for figuring out feathering. Or have the people who know Pelt stuff well gone through them and ruled them out for feathering? Maybe ruled them in for other types of mibs? And Mike of course knows the Pelt stuff.

Mike, your answer is provocatively simple. Does that mean you don't attribute the feathering to any particular processes described in any particular patents? Is it still on the level of unsolved mystery for you?

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Dug examples from Ron. (click to enlarge)

A little slow tonight. Hope no one minds if I try to get some more action in this topic. Some "Imperials". Some with strands of oxblood-looking color, at least one with aventurine. And some of Vacor's modern clay marbles:

Wow. I wonder what would have been said if that had been put up for guesses. I wouldn't have gotten it.

so sorry. no offense intended. is the green and white a CA too? there were so few words and no one else saying anything. plus I wondered if the word "new" was a clue.

p.s., it does look like a rare octagon indeed. a 12 sided octagon.

If I'd had to guess what the ring around these solitaire boards was about, it would have been a place to put marbles after they were jumped. This dome is new to me. Morphy's description: Victorian inlaid Tunbridgeware Marble Board. Circa 1870 of rare octagonal form. Original glass cover is unique making this the perfect board for a very rare set of early marbles.

You'll tell us when the Design A Marble contest starts?

why do I suspect there's a punchline coming ?

Link to youtube in case the image doesn't come through here:

How to make a marble: Jabo 2008 Tribute Run Joe Street's new video showing marbles being made at Jabo. http://www.viddler.c...rbles/videos/1/ Looks as if there might be a way to embed videos in the new board format but so far I'm not having luck with that.

LOL, when I saw the born on date in the title, I thought it might be a Marble King thread! Wrong month though. ;-) Happy Birthday Bill!

weerd things are afoot. Dustin's score jumped from 3000 to 8000 points overnight. He is now in 56th place. How many days till the end of the contest? about 20? Anything could happen!

not enough words . . . God bless and comfort you.

*gulp* message sent.

Here's a thread for the benefit of newbies and maybe not so newbies. What examples do you have and/or know about of marbles which you think could be mistaken for old? Here are a couple of my favorites, these pix from Schusserland.de. Clownfish sometimes taken to be Master: And not sure of the name, but some like the two-seamers in this batch have been questioned in the past as possibly vintage:

A mill ball with a reflection like this?

My thoughts about clear coating marbles were pretty much limited to ceramics. Might be able to find a better example in a tour of ebay but here's a hint of the unnatural gloss I started seeing a couple of years ago, I guess it was. I posted these in August of 2007. Compare the shiny brown ones to the non-shiny white ones. And there were many weird reflections in different marbles in this thread which Paula commented on, Some Dug China's. Even that bull's eye in one of the close-ups. Looks like the hair on it is stuck under hairspray. The gloss on the felt tip mibs isn't "glaring" but why is it there at all?