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brown slag seems hand gathered with pontil on one end .77
Alan replied to Jeremysvt's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Thats damage on a machine made slag. -
No.
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I say yes.
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I think its from the last 2 decades.
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Looks green, but not Vaseline.
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No oxblood.
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Not oxblood.
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I would rather not. My point is that Mark Matthews signs his work. The court case was online when I read it >10 years ago.
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Mark doesn't released unsigned work. Before someone jumps in on that - the only examples of unsigned Matthews coming (stealthily) into the market ended in a lawsuit and a judgement barring the offender from the marble collecting market by court order.
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Its pretty far out of focus - so ID is part guesswork. I'll suggest that you back your camera up to allow the camera to focus.
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Vacor
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what do you make of this copper sparkler but no pontils? .62
Alan replied to Jeremysvt's topic in Marble I.D.'s
Its quite out-of-focus. But I'll go with modern until better pics are posted. -
These are cool. UV reactive transparent. Melt pontils.
Alan replied to Craytus's topic in Marble I.D.'s
I don't see any pontils. -
The debris is oven brick. The tank was dissolving into the glass, leaving those pieces. It was not intentional/desired.
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Modern machine-made. A "pontil" doesn't look like that. Nor is it a torch piece.
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Divided core.
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You may want to not use the flash. Its washing out the color.
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The clay figures were made individually in 3-dimensional forms. The figure was pressed into a half-sphere of hot glass, then a second gob of glass was pressed in and then the marble trimmed and formed to a perfect sphere. All sulphides are single-pontil marbles.
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Back your camera/phone away from the marble. It can't focus that close. Manual focus before taking the photo. Otherwise it will probably focus on the background. Aim for in-focus, not big.
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The pics are out-of-focus - leaving a fair amount of room for guesswork.
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If you are referring to Tom D. Thornburgh Jr. - they are handpainted Chinas starting in 1994 - ?
