Wow! These are absolutely beautiful marbles!!! 😃😃😃 Thank you again for uncovering all of this history. I think its incredible when we as collectors can learn about and appreciate the people who made the marbles we collect. 😎
Here's a couple of messy ones I found yesterday in Port Townsend WA (just a ferry ride away from Anacortes). I'm glad I found them since a local artist was planning to use them in a scrap glass mosaic. 😬
Like I keep saying, this information is absolutely amazing! 😃 I agree with @LevvyPoole, it is really interesting to learn about how Japanese marbles started circulating in China and Hong Kong. It seems like a lot of them have been found there.
Hey, just thought I'd post this in advance for the Seattle show this Saturday, but if any collectors/dealers attending have some extra Japanese transitionals they are willing to sell, I am in the market for them (as always). 🙂
Man! That's pretty impressive that the glass products were viewed by the emperor himself!
Not that any marbles don't have history, but Japanese transitionals seem to have some particularly impressive history. 🙂
Thank you so much for the awesome information Shiroaiko! 😎 It's really amazes me to think that the marble was made such a long time ago. It has definitely seen it's fair share of history! I wonder how it could have made its way over here to the U.S.