YasudaCollector

Interesting!!! I don't think I've ever seen one like this (whatever it is). 🙂

Nice ones! 😎 I'll have to have my brother post a white brown and blue one he found last weekend. It's absolutely enormous (probably like an inch an a half).

Cool find! 😎

Yeah, unfortunately these look like a lot of newer imported marbles from the 1980s and 1990s (probably from either Mexico or China). The large white and purple one (has a purple patch on each end) is a little older (like 1960s) and from the US.

The paperweights I found had been sitting in a display case for so long that the tags had faded completely. (One of the employees had to get out a magnifying glass just to read the prices).

Man, so are there just not as many sellers as before? Or did everything get kind of picked over? I still find a lot of various Asian stuff out there (older pottery, lacquered boxes, bamboo baskets, and a few Chinese paperweights). However, these antiques don't seem to be sought after by a ton of really avid collectors like marbles are.

Oh my gosh, what a coincidence! I was just in Snohomish today! 🤯 I'll have to have Alec (my brother) post some pictures of what he found. As for me, I found some really old looking Chinese paperweights. One is the regular round type, but 3 others are birds with a layer of Millefiori in them. The birds look more like seals though, they're very gloppy and misshapen. 🤣 Nice finds by the way! I love the deep blue/teal color of the Blenko lighter. The mibs look awesome too (it looks like there might possibly be some older Akros in there).

Interesting 🤔

Wow! Maybe there were several companies that made them? Or are the bags mostly from jobbers?

Here are some of the more colorful ones I've saved over some time. I think it's really cool how the Taiwanese used recycled glass to make marbles. There's so many color combos, and no two really look the same (up close).

Ooh, the color of the veins (that creamy, rusty orange) almost reminds me of Peltier windshields.

It does look kind of like a Peltier (based on the general seam lines).

Hmm, this looks like a type of Cat's eye marble. Not sure of the manufacturer though. It does look a little later than 1930s. American companies made a lot of Cat's eyes starting in the mid-1950s.

😱😱😱 That looks like marble heaven!

The blue one is gorgeous!

Awesome find!!! 😎

🤣🤣🤣 It's always so incredibly funny to see how AI thinks of us! Last year, my Chinese history professor asked Chat-GPT to imagine a Chinese history teacher, and it came up with some guy with a long beard and robes who looked just like Confucius!

Ooh, nice one! That's definitely a Taiwan cat's eye (based on the bubbles, green base and wrinkled glass). I heard from Elizabeth Kempski's book that the Taiwan marble makers used recycled glass.

So like European or Japanese? There were some Japanese cat's eyes in the group, and several older Vacor imperials (like 1970s ish). Could it be from either of those countries?

Thank you! I love the character/colors in this guy. I'll try and take some more pictures, but my camera really didn't want to pick up the reddish tones of the oxblood. At least, hopefully I can get any cut off lines/seams in the glass in my next pictures.

Cool! 😎 As a marble newbie, I assumed that oxblood would be made deliberately. It's fascinating to learn about colors being created by accident. I guess its kind of like pottery (which I learned in high school) - you'll never know for sure what will come out of the kiln/oven.

Interesting, so a bit of oxblood got into the glass batch by accident?

Nice marbles! I would guess that they are all Japanese or Taiwanese except for the red caged cat's eye. That one looks like a lot of Chinese cat's eyes I've seen.

Sorry, the red in the oxblood really didn't come through in the pictures. I'm sure its oxblood since I bought an Akro oxblood in the same group (the brushed red glass on the clearie looked exactly like the oxblood glass on the Akro).