Shamrock Marbles

Thank you for the follow up videos. Many more questions…

@Royal3 Looks like more updated information has been shared. The next video has additional info.

Alan, I agree with you. It wasn’t like they had a better show wanting that time slot. Our first visit to the show was most confusing. It cost us more to attend the show and events as a guest than attending as a dealer. The next year and subsequent years we returned as dealers and it was cheaper! Heck, we even sold marbles! Wheaton did everything to thwart visitors from attending. Poor attendance resulted in poor sales. My wife and I are fully employed engineers. We didn’t need the marble sales income. Whereas, the full time artists needed to recover expenses. Some traveled from California! It broke our hearts hearing the grumbling. Wheaton managed the program into a death spiral. Shame. I cherish the memories and friendships. Do you remember Harry making his sonar sound into the microphone during his demonstration? “Boop, boop, boop, boop”? He also talked about encasing the cobalt glass in the crystal and was worried about contamination of the clear.

Wheaton is still pretty much the same 20 years later…

Pictures from Brian Bowden:

…someone who posts here took this picture of Harry Besett demonstrating at Wheaton Village. I’m hiding behind Drew Fritts in the front row. Those Wheaton shows were the best!

Here is a neat YouTube video: Enjoy your journey!! -John

From AAM.

Tommy, I just love these style of slags. They remind me of the surface of Europa.

Construction = 5⭐️ Color Combo = 5⭐️ Imagine being there that marble was created! The things we’d learn!!

Stunning!! Don’t get me wrong, but this reminds me of purulent discharge from an abscess. I would be extremely happy to have this specimen in my collection. I’m jelly. -John

“Over the top” is an understatement.

Happy Birthday! If you are like me, we have fewer ahead of us than behind us. Enjoy each day. Daily, tell those closest that that you love them. Life is short. Memento mori.

WTF? What would you call that? Stunning marble!

Wishing you luck!! Would love to have been there when they discovered the blue burned out or the black faded to gray/grey! The conversation would have been priceless. As much as people would like to think glass chemistry is a science, it is mostly a theory and art.