Craytus

1 hour ago, bumblebee said:

Nice mineral spheres!

I have been tempted to collect more mineral spheres but I am rather hooked on the German handmade agate marbles.

Just got this 1.06" hand-faceted one today, which is about the largest size I have found for German agates. I have seen someone who has some 2" ones that are hand-ground but I suspect they were made as advertising displays:

It's really a beautiful marble.

But I love and collect them all the same. I threw the JABO in for size comparison.

Citrine, banded agate, silk agate, sardonyx, and some quartz in each sphere.

Cheers!

16 hours ago, Steph said:

Happy Easter!

Beautiful!

Happy Easter.

Marble is made of calcite crystals (white) and some colored grains of mica inclusions; the grains in a marble are locked together like jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Similar. 

Lots of minerals and other stuff: tiger eye jasper, quartzes, feldspar, milk glass, sardonyx, etc. Nice collection. 

Thanks. Learning.

This is what I was looking at. Damage?

Hmm. I'll have to check again. Thanks for looking.

Really pretty transparent marbles. Lots of bubbles. Small thumbnail shaped pontils. The little yellow one has no pontil.

Biggest 3 are 3/4"

Red is a little smaller.

And the yellow peewee is 1/2"

Under the black light, they all go crazy. LoL.

Any ideas on IDs?

8 hours ago, Jeremysvt said:

yes.  one end does which made me think trasitional.  hard to photo thumnail

One pontil is transitional.👍

Does it have a pontil mark? Transitional is the time period between handmade and machine made. There's usually a pontil on one pole of the marble. Can be pinch, thumbnail, regular, etc. 

Hard to see in pics.

Definitely a green slag. 

Just now, Fire1981 said:

I think it might be a MK. I'm basing this off of the seams.

Thanks 👍

Alley Agate swirl marbles: left to right: butterscotch, butterscotch, butterscotch and root beer brown... Is my guess. 

Nice marbles. 👍

Agreed. Everything looks right. I'm just so hesitant to say.

12 minutes ago, wvrons said:

They both have the Cairo trait of the seedy glass. 

Just now, wvrons said:

Both generic not many traits to narrow them down. First one might be Champion or even newer. The second one could be Alox, Ravenswood, or Alley ? 

I was thinking Alley on the second as well. Thanks 👍.

But the first two aren't new. I got them.from the attic of an old estate. The glass is old, it presents pale peach under the black light. I believe they might be Cairo Purple Lightning. But there are so few resources on Cairo marbles it's hard to know. 

The search continues.

Anybody know this one?

24 minutes ago, Chad G. said:

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Thanks.

First time posting. Sorry. They're all 5/8" 

l have several of these. Not sure what they are.