PittsburghMarbles

Yes it is

Looks to be Marble King, slight chance its a vitro.

It does have some bubbles in it, but I highly doubt that its a pelt. The only other thing other than Vitro is that its a JABO or something but JABO doesnt really have seams like in this marble.

No, I see no evidence of another cutline.

About half appear to be rainbos, you have a bunch from alley and stuff too.

I really have no idea with this marble. Any ideas? It’s about 3/4ths of an inch.

Yes they’re full of kiln brick, all 5, very strange for pelts.

Here’s the last marble you’re talking about.

The last one is def not a buttermilk. It’s some sort of NLR pelt maybe but def a pelt.

That’s a nice MFC, that cut line is indicative of MFC slags. It’s where the cutting shears cut the marble when it was still pretty molten.

Def not Navarre/Leighton. They have a melted pontil. Thats a pinch point pontil and I believe those are supposedly MF Christensen. Its not a Japanese transitional I dont think. Theyre pontils are more crude looking.

Hmmm I’ll have to look that up. Either way, these are some pretty rare pelts if they’re stumping people on here lol

^ theyre green and red with tints of orange.

My grandma just gave me these marbles in a huge jar of marbles that my grandpa had in the 30s or so. I tend to think I know my marbles as I’ve been doing it for years but I can’t think of what kinda pelts these would be. The last photo is the pelts in question. I think the 2 more colorful ones are NLRs of some sort but I’m not quite sure.

So I came up to visit my 91 year old grandma. I showed her photos of my marbles and she was like I got a jar of marbles under the cabinet. Anyways, they’re incredible and I got them for free, which is a plus. They were most likely my grandfathers marbles, who died in the 60s when he was young. He grew up in the 30s in Texas; so it’s pretty cool that these marbles were my grandfathers. Lots and lots of amazing marbles in this jar. Some super rare pelt NLRs, lots of vitros and 3 large Akro carnelians and a bunch of super nice vitros. All the stuff I have on the plate is in mint condition. I told my grandma all about marbles when I was partitioning them out of the jar. The last photo is the mint marbles I put in bags to better protect them on the way back home.

Just bought this sweet master from fleabay. Getting harder and harder to find good deals on there.

Got all of this last weekend for 20 bucks altogether. I’d say that’s a pretty epic score.

My gf just bought me this awesome pitcher, which is most likely Phoenix Glass from Monaca, PA from the 1880s. It’s absolutely gorgeous and has a ground pontil on the bottom.

Just got this score today from a bubble gum dispenser for sale at a garage sale. Haven’t really gotten the chance to look through it yet. But I’ve found a few good savers so far.

Got this awesome superboy last week from a guy that was getting rid of his whole collection.

On another side note, I just bought these Czech bullet molds in their original bag, waiting for them in the mail.

I’m confused, what does Bulgarian collectors have to do with Nigeria? On a side-note talking about Africa. Are there any marbles that are or were known to be produced in Africa. I don’t know about sub Saharan Africa, but surely there were or are marbles produced in Northern Africa, like Egypt or Morocco, etc? Also, the only Eastern European marbles I’m aware of are Czech made bullet mold marbles and I believe those date post 1965 or so.

It’ll never be complete and I’ve only been at this hardcore for about 2 years. I can’t imagine what my collection will be like in a few more years, I’ll have to buy a second house to store it all… Until I can win the lottery or find a mafia bag full of millions under an abandoned house and can afford to buy a historic building in north central West Virginia and start the worlds greatest most modern marble museum lol. On that note, I’ve always wondered where would be the best place for a marble museum. Probably not Clarksburg or anywhere else in WV as it doesn’t have the population to support it. I’ve always thought the best place for a marble museum would be Cleveland or Pittsburgh as those cities have the tourism and money to support a very nice marble museum and are only a couple of hours away from where most of the vintage/antique marbles were made in America.

A bought a nice one for 7 bucks at a marble show earlier this year. Not sure what they sell for online…