YasudaCollector

I'm a total history nerd, my room is practically a museum! 🤓

Here are some of my various collections:

Very nice breakfasts guys! I don't have it too often, but my favorite breakfast is scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. (I'm a bit of a glutton) 🤣

That's a really interesting marble. Nice fizzy base glass.

Have these marbles also appeared in other ex-Communist bloc countries? A lot of these marbles are probably contemporary, but could some of them have been produced in the Soviet era? (Like 1970s or 1980s). I think my marble is at least 15 or so years old. The collector I bought it from said he'd had it for over 10 years, and he said he had originally bought it from another guy who had had it for a few years.

This guy kind of looks like one. Everyone I show it too agrees that it is probably Bulgarian or newer Chinese.

This is absolutely incredible information! I am fascinated by the July 1941 date when Japan no longer shipped marbles to allied countries. I think it is amazing to have such a definitive date for the latest that these prewar marbles could be from.

Whoa! Those are some very interesting Japanese patch marbles! The colors seem very crisp.

Very Cool! 😎 Those are some nice blues/aquas! (The red and white one looks very interesting).

Those are some cool ones guys! 😎

Cool! Man, it looks like JABO was really creative with their use of color.

Here are some from my collection.

Wow! If the figure 8 marbles are pre-war, that means they are about 85-90 years old.

Is this JABO like early or mid 1990s? It looks a lot different from some of the newer ones. Also, I'm pretty close to the vitro agate Anacortes plant which JABO bought its machines from. Could the marble be from there?

It's about 1 inch. I just turned 20 years old a couple months ago, but when I got the marble, it was in an antique shop mixed in with some older cats eyes (probably 1970s ish) and a few marble kings, and peltiers.

Those are some nice beautiful blues!

So when were these marbles made? I've heard the Yasuda transitionals were made in the 1930s.

Wow! That's quite a few considering how rare they are. What would they have been used for though? 🤔 I've heard the Chinese paperweight makers also made aquarium ornaments too.

Interesting marble! The green looks very intense. The marble also seems to have some sort of a sheen to it.

Hmm, interesting. It seems like these Bulgarian marbles are starting to pop up in a lot of different places. I see a ton of them on ebay.

Man! Has anybody ever seen one of the Chinese birdcage marbles? It almost reminds me of the glass used in some older Chinese paperweights (the sandy color base glass with bright primary color designs).

Cool!

The opposite side of the marble from the pontil is a little flatter than the other parts of the marble. It is also largely the white base color with very few of the orange swirls reaching that side.

This was one of the first marbles I ever bought! I was like 12 years old and thought that the sunset orange coloring was really cool. All these years later, I still have absolutely no idea what it is though. Any guesses are appreciated 😊