crashbelt
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Your best marble display stand ideas
crashbelt replied to Chris Parson's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Sadly nothing like the boulders I see in US collections. I think the big ones were exported to the US whereas we got the boards with small ones in the UK. Here's the biggest - complex core 2 5/16"
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Your best marble display stand ideas
crashbelt replied to Chris Parson's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Mine are mostly on solitaire boards or jars, although the cabinet is a bit overcrowded now!!
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Boxed John Jaques solitaire set with pink/green onionskins. Jaques must have imported large numbers of small onions for their boards because I have others with this style of marbles and have seen many more. Also a good clue to identifying likely all original sets.
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I've been a bit quiet on Thursdays lately, so here's a boxed probably all original Glevum Games set - likely early 20th Century. Interesting that all the marbles have some black glass, including two same cane single ribbon cores.
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After the last 4 Thursdays of Josephs Coat boards this last offering just sneaks in this week. 11 Josephs Coats and 22 swirls. I've always been pretty sure its original because the glass colours are consistent and the 11/16" size and ground pontil finishes. So probably a later period board I was lucky enough to find in the UK 25 years ago.
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Just love those Bennies
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Bit late this week, but for the 4th week running its a board of Joseph Coats. Pee wees this time. Not 100% sure if they're all Josephs may be some onions and banded transparents in there!
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At the risk of being predictable here's a third consecutive week of Josephs Coat boards. Again very likely an original set found in the UK 25 years ago. 9/16" to 5/8" less finely made than the previous 2 sets but great bright colours.
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Following up last week's board with Josephs Coats with another. They make for some of the most attractive solitaire sets and these days original sets are vhtf and expensive. Lucky I found mine years ago in the UK. 9/16" ground pontils so later period.
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Good question Chad. I have around 150 Josephs Coats - none has AV and they're all 9/16" to 11/16". But that's because they're all in solitaire sets -probably all original sets. The set in my post is 11/16".
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One of my favourite sets - 11/16" Josephs in great condition on a beautifully carved board.
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Last week I showed a FH Ayres compendium set board with swirls. Here's the other main marble type they used for their compendiums - pee wee micas.
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I've always thought that latts would be much more valued if they weren't so common - very attractive marbles.
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Here's a pee wee swirls set from a FH Ayres games compendium. Having seen quite a few of these, it seems that Ayres went with either swirls or micas for their compendiums. Interested if anyone has seen other marble types on these boards.
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Extraordinary Ron - what a collection.
