Alan

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.

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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.

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The bag is not right and appears to be new.

1st: Akro

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Hopefully Covid will ease and we can get back to shows. Ebay and Facebook are poor sisters compared to in-person shows.

I have never downsized - or frankly, even sold anything in the past 20+ years. But I think its helpful to step back ask ourselves what we are doing this for. What is the focus of the collection? If there isn't a focus - then its more of an "accumulation" than a collection. Our focus may shift over time - and some re-thinking may be in order. FWIW: A well known person who has been in the hobby for 35+ years once said: If you don't have it on display - its time to let it go.

That assumes that factories sourced their sand from single sources which were in themselves consistent. I wouldn't assume that. In glassmaking, bubbles are usually a phase in cullet/substrate melting. Glass which is not fully up to temperature can often contain bubbles. I saw that in a glass pot on Wednesday.

Glass flow looks Master.

All pics are out-of-focus, but doesn't appear to be a furnace.

Nothing rare about those colors. In fact I think they look rather muddied/muddled. Someone overpaid by a large margin.

What appears to be an oily surface is the first thing I noticed.

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