Chris Parson

Exemplary, Chad! 👍🏼 I almost expected the seller to put up a struggle but he gave me that refund, almost too willingly. Then there’s the chance to leave feedback on the seller, just like on eBay. I honestly don’t know what to say. The dirty box and the lack of proper packaging, giving me a broken product, leaves a negative mark but he did give me a full refund and that’s positive. Looking at the feedback from his former customers, I can see that he had a few issues in the past. He doesn’t seem lite a bad person, just sloppy and not so good at communication. I could just skip the feedback all together because I’m rather happy than right, but then I’m also thinking about his future customers and how they should be able to see both the positive and the negative. It’s a tricky one.

Yes, I agree. 👍 After all, it is glass we are talking about and it should be handled with care.

Beautiful! How big is it (the marble)?

I had to look up the word "Kräfstvika" because I've never heard it before. In Sweden we call it a "Kräftskiva" - [Kreft-shiva] I've been to a few of those before I became vegetarian. It's boiled crayfish, alcohol, singing and funny paper hats for an entire evening. The day after you don't blame your hangover sickness on the alcohol, you claim that "those crayfish must have been bad".

It is definitely candle residue because it smells like stearine or paraffin. I asked the seller if he could shed some light on the matter 🕯️ but he was totally oblivious. Yes, I thought so too. However, it's an old plastig bag with basically a front and a back (like two plastic "sheets") put together to create a tube. So there are seams along the sides and I guess that many years of movement of the marbles inside the bag have finally caused the seam to split. It's like folding a piece of paper, back and forth, over and over again; The more you fold, the more fragile the paper becomes along the fold. Something like that.

I got the marbles today. The seller had just put them in a old chocolate box. No padding and the bag had somehow been torn open, so there were loose marbles in the box. If that wasn’t enough there were also some kind of waxy crumbles inside the box, like if one would have crumbled a piece of a candle or something. The seller acted clueless but gave me a full refund. Says he didn’t know about the crumbles in the box even if he packed it himself. Anyway, I now have some marbles that used to be in their original bag, that is no longer sealed.

It’s interesting. From what I know there has not been any glass marble production in Sweden. The label is in Swedish and the marbles could be imported and bagged in Sweden, but I’m just guessing. Maybe they are the only Swedish made glass marbles, made by a indigenous glass witcher in the deepest forests of Småland.

Yes, I’m acquainted with the two coloured ones, but I am asking about the ones with only one colour. Solids is perhaps the name for them?

I was wondering about one colour MK marbles; How do they look when it comes to seams and so on? How does one identify a marble like that? Please, post pictures and educate me.

Thanks Al! I'm slightly buying a pig in a poke here but they can't be that bad.

I don’t know if this qualifies but something sure happened to this cat’s eye. It’s great and never rolls off the table.

That’s a cool t-shirt!

I found a sealed bag of opaques at an online auction site. A guy is selling the old stock from a 1950’s Swedish country store and there is everything from stickers to nylon socks. One could wish for better photos, I know, but I’ll take some better shots once I get the package.

Grouped and bagged.

There are plenty of Asian and Vacor marbles in Sweden. 5 may be Vacor. 4 may be a German striped…?

Well, you are in the Netherlands and I am in Sweden. We are both as far away from the US legal system as we can be. I was just, in other words, asking you politely not to use my thread as a place of trading. Is that okay?

Okay, here are four opaques and one with a deep purple clear base and swirls. The red pattern on 1 differs from 2 and 3 which both have similar patterns. Maybe a Vitro and two MK, or the other way around…? Anyway, 4 might be Asian and 5 I don’t know. What say ye?

@Mojo May I suggest that you post in the "Buy and Sell" forum instead of in my thread when you want to start a trade? Thank you kindly for understanding. Peace!

I recently found five of these in the same lot. Two of them have beautiful patterns while the other three doesn’t display the same features. I just love them all, also because of their 17-19 mm size.

Just a quick respont to @Gladys post: Here’s another agate ball/marble. About 32 mm.

I keep pushing my luck to see if I’m still in the realm of MK.

Thanks a lot! They are beautiful and I am not sure if I’m ready to part from them just yet. Maybe you would be so kind and send me a PM with what you desire and then we can at least start with opening up a dialogue. What do you say?

It has never been a conscious choice to collect these, but still I have kept them and I keep adding to the pile. Viva Vacor! 🇲🇽

Well, if I start getting too many Veligglas marbles I’ll think of you first. I believe it’s just like that; Veiligglas (meaning safety glass I think) @Mojo can set you straight.

I’m leaning towards that as well, at least for the red one.