Alan

You should beatbox that.

If you Maglite it, it will be purple glass.

At the New Philly show 20+ years ago, a guy said he had some Akro in his van he wanted to offer me. In the van he opened a wood Army footlocker that was FULL of blue/yellow Popeye patches. I have no idea how many thousands of them were in there, but it was a really, really big number. He said the footlocker couldn't be moved (and wouldn't stand the weight of the contents if moved). He begged me to buy some...."Name your price!" but I walked. That was just one digger. The total universe of dug blue/yellow Popeye patches is HUGE. Think >15,000. and well beyond. I think they are just errors that were dumped. Nothing more unusual than that.

Yes. I bought a passel of them years ago. Andy did great work.

They are known up to 1".

No, they are just poorly made marbles. That happens in mass production. They were usually discarded as refuse.

Marbles were commonly used as claw-foot balls back in the day.

(Noting the seller to avoid their auctions)

The "concept" is emptying the glass tank of most of it's contents for a different batch of glass. In practical reality, it was used somewhat as a euphemism for something else related to accounting.

Not a Popeye.

I do - but generally just before tight turns.

Master.

It is a Rolf and Genie Wald piece. "Baddog" is their signature for marbles that didn't quite turn out the way they wanted.

It is someone's "fooling around at the torch" contemporary egg. Notice at the rod attachment point that it was overheated. It was intended to be an egg.

I think 15 different people could have 20 different ideas of what you are describing. Best to post an actual photo of what is being described.

Pessman.

All Lightning Strikes that I have seen and know of are on opaque white. Take care assuming ID.