ManofKent
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Thanks Winnie - I'm unaware of any English marble factories (not to say that the general glass works didn't produce any as a sideline). I suspect that a lot of marbles assumed to be German may be French - the Sparklers and Wispers may well be mainly French. There must be French marble enthusiasts out there who know more it's just finding them
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What is up with Ebay's Marble Listings???
ManofKent replied to MC Marbles's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
A couple of listings I had in my watch list come up without a category. Hopefully it's a temporary issue... -
Sorry not a great shot. I'm still leaning towards Peltier over Vitro
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Thanks Ann. France had many glassworks (not least for wine bottle production) and of course Boules/Petanque is essentially scaled up marbles
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Nice - Jerry
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Wonderful illustrations - I must try and dig out marble illustrations in old Ladybird books (something my wife collects - these: http://www.vintageladybird.com/)
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gorgeous greens
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Lovely! Almost delicate enough for a wisper.
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Thanks Ann!
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Newbie learning about marble bags
ManofKent replied to ManofKent's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Thanks Al. I've got around 200 champions on their way so I won't take the gamble. Btw the Buddy bags are on their way to Faversham. Thoughts at the moment as their are two pairs of headers is carefully opening one of each and keeping the other two sealed, but I've yet to open the other bags that have arrived. I want to see the contents but... -
Newbie learning about marble bags
ManofKent replied to ManofKent's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
No the listing claims it's unopened (yes that's always a gamble). Perhaps the question should have been, what should this box contain -
Newbie learning about marble bags
ManofKent replied to ManofKent's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
A box rather than bag. Any ideas what it contains? -
Hopefully a sunset: Glass is transparent rather than green. Yellow and white can also be sunsets, but what about just yellow on transparent glass?
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Yes white base tiny bubbles, and not the dense solid white of the 'standard' rainbos I've got. I shall quickly jump up and down shouting 'I got one right', before someone posts 'it could be, but it could also be...'
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Thanks Steph - no I didn't spot it was a link I think you're right with Akro Tri-Colour, but it's sneaky of them to count white a color
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again covered in crud and posted with some very dirty Champion Jr bags and some other loose dirty/broken marbles. It cleaned up well and my thoughts are a Peltier Rainbo, maybe a 'bloodie'. I don't know whether it's opalscent enough to be a 'bloodie' but it's slightly less solid a white than my rainbos:
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Wow - these modern artists produce some fascinating stuff.
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Thanks Steph - the very distinct 'sharp' stripe made me think Marble King (but bear in mind I'm new to this!). There's no third colour so I wasn't thinking a tri-colour, but I'll have a dig around for Akro photos.
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A handful of damaged and just grubby loose marbles arrived with a grubby bag of Peltier Champion Jrs. This one cleaned up okay. Marble King Rainbow?
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Thanks to you to - the id thread is a wonderful learning tool. Ditto on ordering a blacklight
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Those are amazingly similar. Do Kokomo's tend to have that slightly more translucent base white?
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On the auction listing I could only read 'Made in...' . I suspect a lot of English sold marbles would have come from France. I shall keep my eyes out. The only other French marbles I've spotted on the site were these in the old thread you dug up:
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Lovely swirls on these.
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and the last one from the box :
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