Alta
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So after digging into some rabbit holes, I am more confused than before. I understand that hand gathered means a marble that was machine rounded but gathered by hand, and has the typical "9 and tail" look to them. A transitional seems to be a marble that is in the transition stage between fully hand made and machine made and tends to have a cut mark such as the pinch pontils on Japanese Transitionals. After that long explanation of what I do understand, now for my question, a hand gathered sounds like it is in that same stage of partly machine made partly needing someone to finish the process, so why is it not seen as transitional? Hope this makes sense...
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Mine is .63" so 16mm
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Yet another German slag
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Leaning Master but not sure, seams seem slightly off
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Modern Imperial I believe
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Thanks Chad and Tommy. I think I messed up transitional and hand gathered in my head. Learning every day...
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Something feels a bit off for Master, but only other option I can think is a dark Whispler of sorts and that does not feel right either...
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The "Score!" thread. Post your exciting finds here...
Alta replied to bumblebee's topic in General Marble & Glass Chat
Some of the marbles from a recent local Facebook buy. A nice mix of vintage and transitional/ hand gathered goodness...
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This one is so strange. Looks black in regular light but backlight beautifully. Guessing Asian based on poor glass quality
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If these get old just let me know. Just want to make sure I don't mistakenly attribute them to Japanese when they may be US or European...
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Would this one be a strange hybrid between a striped transparent type and a mushroom type? Very cool marble in hand. White is all in the matrix of the transparent blue and green is opaque
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Once again maybe one of the "Canadian" mibs likely from Japan?
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I fell into a lot of transitionals via a local Facebook sale. And will be posting some of the prettier ones that I am not certain about on here to get confirmation. I believe most of them are of the "currently not yet able to attribute maker" marbles that used to be thought of as CAC that are mostly found in Canada and may be from Japan. Would this be one of those?
