Alan

Estimating prices on a marble based upon photos (most of which are either not focused - or badly lit.... or both) is a rather foolish errand. The vast majority of marbles offered for sale on any internet fora are by either people how are clueless how to grade, lie/exaggerate condition or cannot accurately ID what they are selling. Why is it that 99% of those misidentified marble are incorrectly identified as something worth FAR more than the pedestrian common marble they are offering? How did we get to the point where practically everything is called "mint -" ????? Ditto for "mint" marble with obvious damage, often accompanied by weasel-words like "as-made" (were you there at the factory when it was made?), "tool touch mark" on a machine made (really?) and undisclosed glass fractures which the seller would later say "well - the outer glass was mint!". At a show you can grade it yourself, examine it and it is what it is. Value is much easier to arrive in the context of correct grading and ID. IMO

That is CAC glass flow.

Nice!!!

Its CAC glass

I never wrote anything that referred to a "specific pattern" or a "spiral". I also did not refer to a "patent". Nor did I refer to all of the other external machinery, "spinning independently", "Barker", whether he worked for Akro or not etc etc that you are seemingly referring to.

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It appears to me to be a machine made.

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Its a machine made. Try not to look at defects as a "pontil".

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Both ways. The heavy oxblood was made on purpose. The trace, thready oxblood pretty much chemical coincidence.

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There were games that involved rolling or "bowling" that were played in the home. Hence Carpet Bowls of considerable size. I know that some big handmades I have bought were found in sewing kits used as darning aids.

Kids NEVER allowed an outsized marble anywhere near 1" in a game of marbles. Almost all kids played with 5/8", which is why they are the most common size. Older kids might play with < 3/4", but at the older age they generally moved on from marble playing. Also keep in mind that 3/4 - 1" dia. was too large for most kids to shoot properly due to the size of their hand. A larger marble has a real advantage over players with smaller marbles. At the marble tournaments I have been to, all kids played with 5/8". Also, IIRC, true agates were not allowed in games using glass marbles.

MK

No.

Very modern machine-made frit marbles.

Looks like a combination of dull shears and cold rollers. Reminder: Marble-making wasn't rocket science. It was a crude, sub-cent per marble process.

I'm confused.

Its actually chromed stainless steel by artist Zhan Wang.

Why is this in a marble-specific forum?