Alan

Does the shipping postage meter show a package weight?

I have an Akro pee wee brick - I found it in the dirt on the hill behind the plant's back wall. Its a tad out-of-round and has some surface chill marks which tells me that it was just a small bit of glass that fell on the rollers at start-up. I don't recall seeing any production brick pee-wees - although there are some that been polished-down to that size.

Is there a question in there somewhere?

Nice whip. "Whip it good!"

It looks like a retail sample. I don't see a reason to assume it was a salesman's case - its far too small. The marbles in it seem kind of random for a sample box.

How big is it? 5/8" ?

That doesn't look like Nadine's work.

A very high likelihood that it is modern Bulgarian.

Looks more like a marble whose tail flopped over on itself. That doesn't look like Akro glass.

Either clay - or if glass - a JHM torch piece. Leaning towards the former.

Do you believe it to be vintage?

Possibly a remelt done by a blind person.

Someone threw copper scrap or a penny into the pot to watch it flare up.

Its a jewelry box.

Props for finding this.

Cullet tell the story of production. Its a chance to look at the glass and see what happening....right and wrong, and to look at the changes, imperfections and the struggle to get the production tuned as they wanted. I think it tells an important story.

This is how they are sold in bulk:

These days people will say that they are "as mades". The latest weasel words are to infer that surface flaws came from the factory like that....somehow forgiving condition issues.

I don't feel the need to take umbrage, react or respond. I'm goal-focused.

"T" is for tops (made of marbles)

Woo hoo!

It doesn't cycle that quickly. And the cycles aren't predictable. IMO - the warmer the economy - the quicker the cycles come. The more free cash the collector base has to spend - the more people look for something "new". The economy having been in the dumper since 2008 - the cycles have slowed considerably. I remember a long time ago there was a year where HTF high end MKs were selling at crazy prices. That lasted just a bit less than a year IIRC.