YasudaCollector

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.

It looks like it to me (because of the seam in the white bands). However, I'm still pretty new at telling different slags apart by maker.

Could it be a pretty early vacor??? (Either way its a really cool marble).

🤣 Don't worry guys! I absolutely love uncovering/learning new info. Man! Those Petersons look gorgeous! I can really see the resemblance to the one I bought, except that mine is kinda wonky 🙂. So was it actually Marlow Peterson who created these guys?

Ooh! Those sound really cool! So where and roughly when did he make these guys?

Interesting. 🙂 Even if its kinda lopsided/crudely made I still really like the character and the use of color. At the very least its a neat, out of the ordinary find.

Oh my gosh! That sounds like a pretty impressive find! 😮😮😮

Oh cool! Yeah, as a matter of fact the glass does feel oily (even though the marble is perfectly clean).

I agree though, whatever it is, it looks like a really beautiful piece. 🙂

Is it some kind of Chinese or Bulgarian marble?

I looked all over the marble (very closely) for an artist's signature, but there isn't one. Also, the circular shape at the top of the marble appears to be some kind of smoothed out pontil since it is slightly uneven/raised from the rest of the marble. I couldn't quite get it in the pictures, but the base glass is totally clear (colorless), only the swirls are blue and white.

It's about 1 and 3/8 inches (at the widest part).

Ooh, yeah this guy looks like it might be a Japanese pinch/crease pontil marble.