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Hey that's a real big beauty mate an that white is very bright at the top looks like its some quality glass would be great if you could show the other side its pretty spectacular and there`s a few cullet fans here

Thanks Steph & Darla

Very nice Ann showed the daughter before she trotted of to school this morning she loves it

Thanks for taking a look cheese, i'm thinking the same champion or maybe alley after seeing WVRons champions yesterday, another bit of cullet from Alley Pennsboro turned up today but i would still be 50 50

Lovely onion Seph and absolutely gorgeous piece of cane ,

Thanks Steph yes she likes the cullet she found a piece from the local glass bottle works here a couple years back on some vacant land and when i showed her this stuff for sale she jumped at it

Here is the first piece she found The Perth Glass Works used recycled glass much the same as the US marble makers but there is no evidence they made marbles pretty good match for some of the slags i find though and the owner certainly had the Glass blower skills

Kaitlyn is also a keen antique bottle collector and has had a couple of displays at our annual state collectors show, This year we may do a combined father daughter marble display marbles have never been shown before in the history of the club

Well no doubt about the ID on this lot 2013 Pennsboro dug alley Kaitlyn likes cullet and this lot is also for her we have a little more on the way too

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few i think are quite nice / interesting

Rolling with a Red German

cant ask for more from a Superbowl than that both teams

Very funny

Awesome it rained her last night i reckon at my joint i had at least 10mm very welcome relief for the garden

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Digging the pictures posted guys some nice mibs

Hi Darla love those 2 marbles and i saw them in the other threads the first one i would say in not a transitional but a handmade, the reason i say that is the pontil is still intact it hasn't been altered at the end of the marble making process which basically tells me it wasn't rounded mechanically it also does not exhibit any wear so the pontil is as clearly visible as the day it was made

The term transitional comes from the marble being hand gathered cut with scissors drop into machine rollers to be rounded part handmade part machine Transitional

Handmades were cut from a long length of " Cane " the cut piece attached to a rod and the marble rounded in a cup no machine hence all hand made

Also Edit Or hand gathered as slag types

the second marble is a little more tricky but i'm still of the opinion its a handmade as it gives the impression of a pontil and not a shear mark

Here below is a pic of a genuine handmade pontil i know this is genuine as like all my collection i found this marble this particular marble was under a house it had rolled between the floor boards and the back door sill and dropped down under the house onto the dirt below were it waited for probably at least a hundred years for me to come along with oodles of enthusiasm armed with sheer determination a dust mask and a little weed rake squeezing into an under house crawl space that tight a 90 kilo man has no business being there

Any way back to the topic at hand

as the picture shows the pontil on this guy shows the circle like yours created when the rod attached to the now rounded marble was snapped off

The marble below doesn't show a pontil but a cut line in the first picture were the marble was cut of the rod with scissors

I will get pics for you

Asap

Thanks Randy

Some good looking marbles in that lot ya did well

Nice bunch Steph i really dig the way the bubbly coloured transparent glass rides on top of Pelts

Thanks for taking a look guys Its one of the first marbles i found that wasnt a slag or bennie so bit of a favorite bit more confident its old now

Yep i agree and there not the only one`s A lot of those small jabos are tough for me as well, even seasoned collectors seem to battle with those also

Well they were for me and i don't feel silly either

I pulled this one out of the Ground some time back it wasn't in a trash hole,

I dig for antique bottles and often find marbles in among Mom's kitchen trash EXample broken pickle jars sauce bottles milk bottles things like that that are dateable so i can often date a marble as this dates 1930 40 or before as this pickle is a 1940 model

this guy was more just random in the top layer of dirt not mixed in with anything i think its old but ive got a ways to go with my education

any thought appreciated

Yeah Steph she does have a couple handfuls of modern Mibs her nanna bought for her which to be honest was quite annoying at the time as i dint want any to end up mixed with the old stuff i was bringing home ive mellowed a bit now and think for the most part can spot her play marbles

Hey thanks guys Keeping her interested is going to be the trick there are many other distractions out there for a seven year old especially since marbles aren`t to be played with She has another nice one on the way in a handful i bought of Ebay looking forward to getting those in hand some real nice one`s for me

Couple more shots of the alley`s these are our first WV swirls for some unknown reason i don't seem to find them on the ground here,

Here is 3 small ones from ebay that have arrived I'm never going to rival " Killermarbles " collection but years from now i hope to have a nice display

Excellent i was so hoping a forum member got them so we could take a look congrats Darla hope there in as good a condition as they looked in the pics

Well i finally after 12 months of hanging around on the forums i've let the moths out of my wallet and bought some Marbles very happy with my purchase I bought these in BST on the other forum the Seller Gregor threw in a bunch for free and Put them in little bags with ID tags

These were actually for my 7 year old daughter Kaitlyn who is keen to collect, she managed to earn a few bucks out of me and decided she wouldn't mind a few marbles with the cash

The first 2 pictured were my original purchase the rest are the free bees

Got a few more in the post some where between the US and here these guys took 21 days from Ohio to Western Australia

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Hi randy there is one i would like to take a better look at if that's cool in your third picture top shelf right 4 marbles from the left front row has yellow ribbons Looks pretty nice

Im new to marbles and am keen on the German handmade s Ive just let the hair down a bit and some moths out of the wallet and bought my first ones of Ebay and wonder since you a fair range and im sure some of the nicest original specimens if you wouldn't mind doing a little feature on the different style of pontils found on these guys

Thanks

Thanks Cheese seeing the different companies side by side really make`s a difference i don't have any of these " in hand " for comparison

Thanks Galen i do see and get what your saying