Alan

It is a cane-cut marble. There is nothing at either cut off point that strikes me as unusual. (Unfortunately, I have chosen to remove this content due to unchecked behaviors by others on this board. My apologies to those who will not benefit from it in the future.)

Thats a very nice box.

Torch-made contemporary. The ribbon is usually made by flattening pulled canes.

Those would be well over $4.00/each marble delivered, assuming no customs charges!

IIRC (and I may not) - they are reminiscent of those contemporary marbles being sold out of Germany about a decade ago. I emailed them back then about purchasing - but never heard back.

It looks pretty similar. That is why I posted that photo. Since its your question - its your research/comparison ball to carry.

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The mold was inverted when poured through holes at the feet.

Guess: Its a one-off mold someone made of something expedient and easy. Probably not meant for production...just for amusement or the kids at home.

It looks like it was poured into a simple mold, and the ears and eyes were added later manually - and the tail was picked and turned up.

Those photos are not sharply focused. I'd like to see it in focus under better (not flat) lighting.

Same here:

Sky Blue Onyx with Oxblood:

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It seems that the use of "Same Run" for machine mades is an attempt to twist the term "Same Cane" into machine made territory. That attempt makes no sense to me. Machine made types of the same pattern, same size and same glass chemistry were run for a very, very long time....YEARS in many cases. That was the purposeful plan - to consistently make the same successful type to fill orders over a long, long time. With the very rare exception of true bona fide experimentals - use of the term "same run" makes no sense for machine mades. You could hold 4 marbles of the exact same design and they could each have been made a year apart - and no-one could tell the difference. Borrowing the "same cane" handmade idea just doesn't apply to machine mades.

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Yes

Two vintage logo pieces: "Brown For Congress": "Mobilgas"

Someone took care making those outer bands. Quite nice. Congrats.