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Those are nice! I remember that it was a lot of fun making them. I know when the clay is old or it's cold outside, you really have to work it to get it nice and malleable. You can use some of the same techniques in clay that they do in glass- particularly cane making. The possibilities are nearly endless. I remember seeing some really amazing clay marbles on line. If I recall correctly, Marlow Peterson made quite a few of them too.

Nice ones there, Nickel! Funny you posted this, I just happened to find some I made about 10 years ago when my wife was doing Fimo stuff. I was just playing around one afternoon and made this batch. I had totally forgot about them until I found them again a couple of days ago. Here's the pics- one with flash and one without.

Bumping to the top. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks!

They are all in the .46 to .50 inch range.

They definitely made peewees during that time. Here are a couple of pics of ones I have. I believe these are all JABO, but I'm 100% on that. There are definitely some butt cracks. Let me know it you want some more detailed pics and I can do that.

Cool I got some that were named by Dave himself! And nice provenance with that bag @Nantucketdink Thanks for the help!

Those are my 2 guesses. I couldn't pick one... left one is 19/32 (.59) inches with some yellow UV in the off shade of white. The right one is 35/64 (.54) with no UV.

I think the green and white one is Heaton. I see an ear in pic 1 and a backside blip of color in the last pic. It's 19/32 (.60) inches with no UV. I don't know what the other one is. It's 39/64 (.61) no UV.

One is 3/4 inch and one is just under at .72. No UV. The pattern and glass scream JABO to me, even a bit of a butt crack in the second one. But the colors? Not an investor run that I'm aware of.

I agree- I've learned so much here. All the help is much appreciated!

Thanks Akro. The pics are fairly accurate- the marbles are a dark black with just the light wispy white. Not too exciting.

Thanks folks. I was hoping I'd got it right, but maybe next time! Least I had it narrowed down to 2 possibilities- I just went with the wrong one.

Marble King? Black base glass. They are 39/64 and 5/8 inch with no UV.

They are 19/32 and 5/8 inch with no UV. I have them with my Marble Kings, but that is just my guess.

Based on the deep V or U shaped seam. It's 21/32 (.64) inches with no UV.

I'm trying to learn my seams, but it's not an easy subject! I have a pic of "Marble King Type 2" seams that matches these (1 straight line, 1 curved), but I also have seen Vitros with this seam pattern too. The glass and pattern looks more Marble King to me, so I'm going with that. Did I get it right? The first 2 have fairly strong UV and are 21/32 and 5/8 inches. The last one has no UV and is 21/32 inches.

Wow- those are killer marbles! Definitely one of my favorite types. Thanks for sharing! I don't see many of them for sale- does anyone know where one might go about obtaining some of them? I'd love to add some to my collection.

@cheese Seriously! You are amazing Cheese! Thanks!

I will get some new, and hopefully better, pics up latter this week. Thanks for your help!

Here are some new pics. I don't know that they help much. Pictures with flash look washed out and don't show the depth. The ones with no flash are dark, but show the pattern better. The UV is so bright that my camera just reads it as a bright white light. I got one with indirect UV. I might be able to get better pics in a few days when I get some soft box lights and/or some sunshine.

It's got a nice clean ribbon going throughout. It's 21/32 (.65) with no UV.

Thanks Fire. I just got a better camera and 2 table top soft box lights are on the way, so I should be able to take better pictures soon. Might that help with the ID? I have one other Akro UV slag and the glass on this one is slightly different in color than that marble. And the white is more of a thicker ribbon in this one than on the other Akro. But that might just be due to the different glass Akro used over the years.

It's 37/64 (.57) with strong UV.

Good info. I noticed all the annealing fractures, but it didn't occur to me that meant it was dug. I will remember that for future IDing.

Thanks! What tips you off to it being dug?