YasudaCollector

Congratulations Aiko! That's awesome! 😃😎🥳

Awesome marbles!!!

And here's the bead, which I found yesterday at a local antique shop. It doesn't come through quite in the photos, but the bead is the same rumply, blackish green glass as the marble. The bead is bigger (about 0.8"). The marble is only about 0.67".

Here's the marble which I got in Seattle a few months ago at a show.

Has anybody ever found a marble in bead form before? (Not a drilled marble, but a deliberately made bead)

I wonder what @shiroaiko would say.

Based on the colors alone it looks pretty Japanese.

Yep, this is a Japanese crease pontil transitional.

Yep, this looks like a Japanese crease pontil.

This looks a lot like some Yasuda marbles I have.

Yeah, both are about 5/8

Any ideas on these guys?

Awesome find! 😃 It's incredible that cat's eyes were produced so early. When I first started collecting, everyone (at least in the US) thought that cat's eyes were invented in 1949. This new information pushes that date back by a whole 10 years. I wonder if these prewar cat's eyes were exported to the US? It would be interested to see if any turn up in antique shops.

Just curious, but I wonder if Stephen Bahr would be interested in exploring the topic of imperial marbles with the people he spoke to in his Vacor/El Aguila videos. Maybe, they would be able to associate certain color combos/glass types with Vacor?

Sure! I love studying these guys. It seems like there's so much variety to them, especially in the older ones.

Here are a few of mine:

Is there a way to tell the Asian made imperials from the Mexican made ones?

Awesome 1930s Yasuda! Love the swirls. 🙂

Got this 1930s ish Chinese table for my Grandma as a present. Turns out it came from one of the original art deco buildings on campus, but was purged during a renovation.