crashbelt
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1" orange latt
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Mine came from this, I think original, solitaire set I found in. Scotland 30 years ago! Bob Block's book 'Collecting Early Machine-made Marbles' on MFC and Christensen Agate Co is great for this subject if you can find a copy. It was 2003 so presumably long out of print?
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Pretty sure these are MFCs
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I posted a boxed Jaques set with 9/16" pink/green onions in August. Here's another late Victorian Jaques set with blue/pink/green onions. Can't imagine how many small onions Jaques must have imported from Germany for their sets!!
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Here's a nice old shrunken onionskin with mica - 11/16" faceted pontils. Not a great pic unfortunately!!
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Here's a nice 1 1/4" divided core I've had for years!
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Its not Thursday but here's a 1 1/4" divided core swirl anyway!!
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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.
