Chad G.

Hmm, maybe the expanding gas (air) bubble caused the fracturing in the first place, making it appear as just being an air bubble. The log straight line is a fracture, as well as the small horizontal crack on the interior on one of the veins. So I see both a fracture & an air bubble.

Ball bearings Brother, keep them well clear of your mibs, they'll scratch them almost on contact. the only solid steelies that are worth any money have to be in the original packaging. Unless they're hollow then it's a gimme. The x looking pattern in the first pic is where they closed up the marble. Sizes all the way from pee - wee to around an inch. Steph's post & a pic from right here on MC, if you want to see more just enter "steelie" in the search bar LINK : https://marbleconnection.com/topic/7389-steelies/?tab=comments#comment-65670 Post of an Ebay sale from yesterday LINK : https://www.ebay.com/itm/393302607687?nma=true&si=

Ball bearings Brother, keep them well clear of your mibs, they'll scratch them almost on contact. the only solid steelies that are worth any money have to be in the original packaging. Unless they're hollow then it's a gimme. The x looking pattern in the first pic is where they closed up the marble. Sizes all the way from pee - wee to around an inch. Steph's post & a pic from right here on MC, if you want to see more just enter "steelie" in the search bar LINK : https://marbleconnection.com/topic/7389-steelies/?tab=comments#comment-65670

Orange peel not necessarily Vacor. I have many marbles from almost every manufacture with an orange peel texture. An orange peel texture is desired on an Akro Jolly Roger. Jolly Rogers "have to be over an inch to qualify" but the orange peel surface isn't a must just desired because it looks exactly like an orange peel, I believe this marble is where the term originated but I'm not sure ?? Be ready to pay up for one of these, just not that many around. Pics of Bill MCcaleb's (mibcapper) Akro Jolly Roger, so named after Roger Hardy, this one I believe is between 1&1/8th & 1&1/14 " Same mib with a small piece of cullet Another one from the old "mibbage.com" sales site, belonged to Charles Williams I believe

X 2, I agree with Vitro as well, cool lookin pattern !!

x 2, contemp, a little hammered on, ya got a size Joep ?? China makes some similar machine-made, torch work Contemps are pretty common, I suspect that's what you have but I'm not sure ??

Hear !! Hear !!

Yeah, it looks like a bit of hvy pocket ware & some pitting, still a different looking one. I'd keep it, of course if your like me it's hard for me to toss any Pelt that isn't beat beyond recognition. i.e. "Pelt head"

I was just gonna say, get it wet & loupe the black ribbons real quick in a bright light & see what pops up !!

Does it have aventurine ?? To be considered a Golden Rebel it must have Av. Still even if it has aventurine an odd one for sure. My best Golden rebel has av. in the black, red & yellow, with some green av. in the yellow

Gold is a bit off !! Av. = golden rebel "no av." not a golden rebel. Aventurine in at least the black ribbons is a qualifier for Golden Rebels. No av. Rainbo for me !!

Correct, black ribbons on a white opaque base

No real way to tell once the "solid" ones are out of their original packaging, have to be considered ball bearings Brother, keep them well clear of your mibs, they'll scratch them almost on contact. If I were you I'd just toss em or give em to the grandkids for sling shot ammo (value "0") The only "solid steelies" that are worth any money have to be in the original packaging. Unless they're hollow then it's a gimme. The x looking pattern in the first pic is where they closed up the marble. Sizes all the way from pee - wee to around an inch. One of Steph's threads from right here on MC, if you want to see mare just enter "steelies" in the search bar LINK : https://marbleconnection.com/topic/7389-steelies/?tab=comments#comment-65670 Another pic from Steph's thread of some solid steelies in original packaging.

Boletus - Tomato, Tamato

Ads from 1927 Butler Bros. toy magazine with appreciation & permission from Jim Sneed, shoenhut collectors club, oldworldtoys.com, ads for both solid and hollow steelies. Sorry for the blur in the first ad. 1927 - American Steelie - Hollow steel & solid steel : Parisian Turquoise & American Carnelians 1924- onyx American marbles High Grade Cobalt Blue Onyx : Solid Steel

Fantastic Ric, thanks a bunch Appreciate it !!

Nice job Steph I couldn't figure out that site for the life of me, to much reading I guess. You just saved me hours of looking again "Thank you & double thank you" I had someone trying to tell me that they were beat out by hand you can see the machine made shear cuts & the only way to close up the sphere is in a press. I worked with steel in a shipyard as a fabricator reading blueprints & welding for 13 years & am very familiar with a steel shop, metal lathe & steel shears, plasma cutter (gun), air arc (air carbon arc cutting), steel press etc... so the reason why I highly doubted the "handmade theory"

That oughta clear out the competition !!

Anyone have any info on old steelie manufacturing methods ?? I was always led to believe the old hollow steelies were handmade in some manner. But I had my doubts, they all look machine cut & are to round to be handmade I would think. I had this in one of my folders, can't remember where or when I got it, I think off one of the forums ?? Any info would help. I tried to read the pat. number but found it impossible. If you could the date of application and person that applied is right there but still I was unable to find anything else out. There is only one site you can draw this info from, and for the life of me I can't remember. Maybe my mind is going?? After a couple hours of research the links, names & dates kinda get blurred a little bit. Here is the pic of the process & patent applied for drawing. Maybe one of you is a bit better at looking than I am. Certainly a mib related question that needs answering.

Looks like a modern repro ad marble, they pump these out by the thousands, inumerable logos & stamps on them, probably 1" most commonly. I forget the site but all they have is these, by the case or individually, they get about $3.00 each, but probably buy them in bulk for pennies, you could probably google a number of sales sites pretty easy. I'll post a link as soon as I find it. I just googled "Logo marbles" on Ebay & got 843 sales sites, almost every one 1" marbles, by the case or whatever you want. There are also sites with individual mibs but every site except one was all modern repro

Locks like it could be a piece of Imperial, some of their stuff doesn't have any marks on it. Or maybe a repro toothpick, nonetheless a nice piece

This one looks Alley to me Ric ?? No idea on the blue & white though ??

Sami has has some good pics of them in his book as well as the silver surfer & the rest of the family. This one walked right in my front door, I couldn't believe it, my friend didn't even see the av. in it or know what he had. A good day, this one came to me for once, HTF any in the wild anymore, especially a rare one !! I got my Pelt tiger avatar from Sami in a trade at the Seattle show in 2017. I've bought some really nice big Pelts from him, when I can get him to turn loose of them.

Mmm Mmm, Peltaliciouse !!

"Welcome back Rick" I can't wait, what a lucky dog, digging at the old Pelt site. Yesir, Pelts #1 followed by Alley then my first love, the ones that got it all started, German handmades. Just started the "buy & sell" thread this week, a great time for you to start posting & get on the board again