wediscount2

Gnome, I mean no offense but learning to tell the condition of a marble takes a lot of hands on observation. If you rely on others to grade your material your going to get a lot of different opinions. Your better off saying your uncertain as to the condition and put up a lot of good clear photos and then put in your description that the photos are a part of my description and let the bidders be the judge. Ronnie

Gnome, you have that backwards. Buffing is normally kinder to the marble than polishing. (my view on the subject). If I list a marble as lightly buffed, then that means haze, and light scratches could have been removed from the marble. If I list a marble as buffed then in addition to haze and light scratches, medium and deep scratches along with small flea bites and very small tiny chips could have been removed. If I list a marble as polished than anything and everything could have been done to it. Ronnie PS: my opinion on some of your auction marbles. I didn't look at all of them I quit after the golden rebel peewee. 37/64ths brick Polished-- 41/64ths superman Polished--43/64ths ketchup & mustard Hard Buffed-- 45/64ths 3 color cork and the peltier rebel Buffed or they need toothbrushed as it appears there is grinding grit inside the bubble pops. Also on any of your auction marbles with bubble pops, if the perimeter edges of the marble are sharp and level with the adjacent glass then that marble has been buffed or polished. If the perimeter edge is rounded and slopes downward then it is a normal bubble pop. Ronnie

Gnome, not trying to upset your apple cart but quite a few of the marbles you have on auction have either been polished or hard buffed or buffed. The PeeWee Golden Rebel has definitely beyond any doubt been polished. Ronnie

Just got in @9:20 from the Canton Show. Left early due to illness. The show was fantastic. Motel was sold out Tuesday for the days of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Thursday night they were even putting marble people up on the second floor. Bought a lot of nice marbles. Seen two of the finest antique Marble collections I have ever seen displayed. Neither person was selling, just displaying. One man was from Chattanooga and the other sorry to say I did not get any info on. The one man had on 1 small table material displayed you only dream about, and that didn't include his revolving watch case which was loaded with killer stuff as well. Said it took him 35 years to assemble the collection. I had a room next to the other great collection, a man from Tennesse. He only displayed about 60 or 70 marbles and in 1 large gun case I picked up a 2-1/2" wet mint swirl that had a fat transparent colored glass jelly like core (don't remember the color) with rows of small patterned bubbles running parallel to the pontils and the outer core was thin threads of 5 or 6 different colors and about 30 threads, There was so many thin glass threads that it made it a little hard to see the inner core. Loads and loads of nice machine mades and the buying and selling was brisk to say the least. Great show, had a wonderful time. Ronnie

Dot, You ask: Good investment? I state, It could be a great investment, or it could be a terrible investment!. When you are trying to find out specifics about a collectible, then you need to supply all the info you can about it. IE: Is it well centered, is it a first out of the mold, middle of the road, or a real dud with rounded edges on the component parts. Are there bubbles or a bubble attached to the figure and if so how big. Near Mint could mean anything! You actually need to describe it in the best of your ability the condition of the marble. etc., etc., etc., I'm only pointing these things to you in order to help you. Welcome to the board, Ronnie

I'll bet it does a great job of grinding and polishing judgeing from the cup sizes. That machine would handle a 3 inch sphere with no problems. Ronnie

Someone with knowledge needs to give some input on the Shamrock versions, as I was told the later versions had somewhat of a seam. Ronnie

That machines a monster. I'd be afraid of getting my clothing caught up in it, or a bucket of the slurry falling on my head and bashing out what little brains I got left. Ronnie

On that particular marble Galen is right up there with the best of the advanced collectors. You didn't make it real clear. How are you going to sell the marbles. Ronnie

William Marbles, think you need to read my original quote. galen posted a photo and I simply said it looked like a killer Patrick marble. Wheres the harm in that?

Really!, Scott's had his hands all over that marble. Ronnie

Gnome, if you find someone reliable let me get their name as I sent this bird off for a repair and since I only had enough money to pay for half the estimated repair the polisher only did half the marble. Ronnie

Where you coming from? The second and third marble you sent a photo of are killer Christensen Marbles. The first photo is a killer Patrick marble. Ronnie

Ditto chromie, ditto!!!!!

Galen not trying to start anything but your next to last sentence I don't understand, could you re-phrase or clarify it a little. Ronnie

Was only able to attend 2 times but enjoyed both visits. Met the Huxford's and they were swell people. It was at my first visit that I met some early machine made collectors, Larry Castle, Marlow Petersen, Harold Sugarman and his Mom and Sister, Russell Coppell from CA who at the time was probably the most advanced machine made collector going. Sorry to here it is closing down, guess that only leaves me with Canton which is another great show but I heard Steve was pulling out there so I'll have to look into that situation. Ronnie

Amen to the hot air!!!

Real Sweet!!!!!!!! Ronnie

The top one is completely phony. The bottom one has been repaired on a 5 step Lapidary machine, that's why it's grape shaped in 2 of the photos, and the pontils have been doctored on both ends. Ronnie

How's come they haven't showed up except for the last few years. How's come they are all in a mint like condition. They remind me of the California Sulphides, Here today, gone tomorrow. Ronnie

Nice Marble Winnie, do you have others. The ones I got off ebay were pretty rough. I don't really know much about them but I know mine were in the ground a long time as the majority of them were laden with crazing lines. I could see someone putting the calcium to e'm but not the crazing lines. Ronnie

There on ebay now. seller name is wediscount Thanks, Ronnie

No problem here on this end. I went in and looked at my winning auction and it said the early 1900's. Maybe Galen, Bob Block, yourself and a couple of other reports I have had are right. Could be the 30's or 40's. What I do know is that cement crust on the marbles was very, very hard. Far as your 2 peewees go send me a pic of them and if they are fairly well round and not loaded with cement I'll spin em for you, won't cost you nothing but a couple of bucks shipping. Ronnie

Steph, no need to move the thread, I'm done. Galen accomplished what he set out to do and that was to hijack my post. He's done that to me a few times and that's just the way it is. I'm not upset with Galen, matter of fact I like Galen. What the marble collecting community needs is more people that would think and act like Galen does. He is very honest and tells it the way he see's it, right or wrong. He needs to be a little more considerate at times but other than that he's doing just fine. Ronnie

Gee it's nice to know that there is a marble cop out there in his little white cape and mask looking out for all the unsuspecting souls about to get devoured by the likes of me. That's funny, I got a good laugh on that one.