YasudaCollector

Interesting, so is there a way to tell California agates vs Brazil or Mexico agates?

So, were the last hand faceted agates made in the early to mid 1930s? If so, did Germany continue to make machine ground agates later?

Awesome article!

The 3 in the back row might possibly be Christensen (since they have what looks like a 9 shape). However, the other 5 are hard to tell. Peltier slags usually have super ultra fine bands (they almost look feathery). Generally, I've heard from other collectors that if a slag has no defining characteristics like feathery bands, a 9 swirl, or a seam, it's probably an Akro (just because they made so many).

Yay! It arrived! 🥳

🤣 I agree! It looks like a really neat marble!

Awesome, my dad just purchased it for me (he has the ebay account). Thank you so much for selling this guy, ever since I started collecting marbles, this style has been on my bucket list (even if it's only a ten dollar marble). 🙂

Darn that sucks 🫤It still looks like a really interesting piece. What's the name of your ebay store? If you want to sell it, I'd totally be interested.

I feel like the marble in question still looks Japanese/Asian (but pretty old) since its all out of round and just plain gloppy for lack of better words. 🤣 I don't know if this helps, but I have heard the Chinese glass factories have produced beads for hundreds of years. Maybe, Chinese workshops tried to produce marbles, but they only knew how to produce beads well (so the marbles came out as just blobs of glass). Maybe @shiroaiko would have more info about this guy.

Ooh, I think this could be a very special find. It looks just like some transitionals that I saw in a Robert Block essay (totally out of round with a very crude, twisted pontil). In the article, it said that that hundreds were found in the 1960s in a Shanghai garbage dump, but that they were made much earlier (like 1920s or 1930s). Shiroaiko (a collector in Japan) says that she owns a few, and thinks they were made in Japan in the 1910s to the 1920s. I bet in the future we'll find out more information about these guys, but they're pretty mysterious. I've heard they are also pretty rare, (seeing one of them is almost like seeing a ghost).

Interestingly bright colors! I wonder about the orange peel texture. Incidentally, my brother has one that's just like this. It is around an inch with a similarly constructed patch (its a creamy yellow patch though). It also has the same clear base glass with a kind of rumply, orange peel texture.

Shoutout to another member of this forum! Thank you so much for some awesome additions to our collection! 😃

Ooh, I think this could be a really early Japanese made imperial. I've seen (and have a couple) Japanese marbles that look like knockoff pelts or vitros.

Maybe a German handmade??? I've seen some real weird ones like this.