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Chad G.

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  1. "Wow" a first for me, thank you for showing and explaining it.
  2. Never heard of the " Rolled over a bed of needles" thing to make air bubbles. Be interested to see it.
  3. Looks like "pea soup" to me, that or a "tank" ?? Not a common Rainbo, NLR to me
  4. I copied this picture a while back and put some text with it, man what a pair, I'd be happy with just one. I "wish" you had both since I know you love Akro so much
  5. The dates I go by I look at the pontils on the marble to date it. one faceted and melted, or both faceted pontils (Early) 1850's to around 1860- 1870. One ground and or two unfinished pontils (Later)1870 -1880 to around or just after 1900. I wasn't there so I can give no exact date. This is just the general way I date my German Handmades. There are exceptions of course as in anything. The earliest type (single hand gathers, sulphides were also made sometime around 1850). Google will give you a lot of this information, especially about the early hand gathered types (sulphides)
  6. German and English hand mades were both German made except at different times. The older Germans had mostly faceted or melted pontils and were bigger while the newer hand made Germans were smaller and had brighter colors with unfinished pontils increasing production for the evolving English game board market of the late Victorian era. Later date German handmades were made mostly for the English gameboard market, thus the smaller & smaller size. 99% of the older Germans I have are monsters with one faceted pontil and a melted pigtail on the other end. The brighter and smaller ones I have especially the Joseph coats have brilliant colors are small and almost all of them have two unfinished pontils, including the latts and divided cores, greatly increasing the production rate.
  7. Not CAC, maybe MFC ??
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