jeslar1976

3 minutes ago, akroorka said:

I agree with Fire that yours is a Pelt.

Th OG is a deeply veneered marble--Image one shows this--probably a Marble King--an older one for sure--(the color is not deep enough to be a Pelt), with weird colors as Ric says.

I see no evidence of OX in either one.

Just my humble opinion here.

I appreciate all opinions and hope to see some more.

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I appreciate all the knowledge from everyone…. I think I’m making progress with identifying at least some by company…. 🤷‍♀️maybe anyway!

1 hour ago, akroorka said:

That greenish shadow has me thinking.

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I don’t know I’m still struggling with the lines and swirls. 🤷‍♀️ some look so similar but then they don’t. It’s maddening! 

The black shouldn’t be to hard some of these little townships still use paper ballots lol. I bet if I went poking around some of them I could find something!

17 minutes ago, Ric said:

They look like hand-made ballot balls from here. Now you need to find the notorious "black ball".

🙂

17 minutes ago, Ric said:

They look like hand-made ballot balls from here. Now you need to find the notorious "black ball".

🙂

They really do! Very cool thank you…

Thanks everyone I’m still trying to learn. Unfortunately it may take time as I discovered not a soul in central Pennsylvania to learn from. So for now it’s all internet and books.

I can’t lie my heart rate increased when I found these… They were super hard to get pictures of. I tried many angles and different light. I zoomed in with my magnifying camera to try to get more detail. One is cracked from pole to pole twice. The other is beautifully perfect. 

Just now, Ric said:

I think it is an old Marble King patch and ribbon with less common colors.

These little buggers make my head hurt trying to identify them. LOL 

If so is that red on this some type of metallic oxblood?

I was trying to add photos to my page. I can’t figure out how to do it. I THOUGHT oh maybe you have to add through gallery. That’s a hard NO I might add 😳 so I now have 500 pics in the gallery and some for the love I hadn’t cropped. (That was a whole different episode) 🙄 If I delete the whole gallery thing I have how do I add those to my own personal page? (I was an 80’s kid this tech stuff kills me at times)

1 Tostitos jar $, 1 sugar shaker $, 1 tiny jewelry box drawer $, 1 pickle jar $, spending my Tuesday playing with my weekend find….. PRICELESS!!!😂😊 it was a fun weekend. 

16 hours ago, Ric said:

Is it possible there is damage obscuring the other pontil, which should be pretty much opposite the one you can see? It sort of looks that way to me.

You are correct I cleaned it. 100% has damage I can feel it more now. 

2 minutes ago, Ric said:

Is it possible there is damage obscuring the other pontil, which should be pretty much opposite the one you can see? It sort of looks that way to me.

Probably it looks chipped it doesn’t feel super bad though. I love glass I collect glass and this little marble feels like very good quality glass in reality I can only feel one actual chip. Maybe I will give it a good scrub it might just be dirty. I’m pretty sure that’s one I came across in the dirt. 

3 minutes ago, Ric said:

There are some hand-gathered marbles that only have one pontil - they are fully hand-made, no machine involved. Some people might call the single cut-off on a transitional marble a "pontil" too - I am not usually one of them. 😉

Haha I don’t know enough to call it anything really. I glad to finally be learning a little though. 

4 minutes ago, jeslar1976 said:

I mean on the German one. I have one of those lattice looking ones and you can see the 2 spots. I have 2 of the green German ones the one I shared pictures of and a second one that looks to be in rougher shape but I only see one spot on it. I can share pictures with you. Maybe you be able to see what I can’t. 

On this one you can clearly tell it hand made but I can’t see a top spot only a bottom. Maybe it was smoothed over better? Thank you for explaining that as well I literally feel kinda dumb about the marbles now. How I have been so infatuated with them for so long and I never really had the time to learn more about them. I’m a little embarrassed to be so clueless. This one has a much prettier green. 

9 minutes ago, akroorka said:

The rest of the marbles that you show are macine made.

They came out of a large furnace containing the same glass, were cutoff by a machine and rounded by a machine.

The "Chalkey" that you show would have been picked out and disgarded by quality control--some were no doubt missed.

It has been observed that this may have been a result of being buried over the years and a result of that--who really knows?\

All Marbles have two cutoff points. Some may look like pontils--but pontils are a handmade term only.

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I mean on the German one. I have one of those lattice looking ones and you can see the 2 spots. I have 2 of the green German ones the one I shared pictures of and a second one that looks to be in rougher shape but I only see one spot on it. I can share pictures with you. Maybe you be able to see what I can’t. 

1 minute ago, Ric said:

Oh yeah, it's clear from these photos - nice mica. What is this horizontal feature I see in photo #3? I think I see it in photo #1 too. Can you feel it? Is it sort of a groove?

No I saw it in the picture also it’s feels smooth. Like some of the marbles I have that have weird spots similar to this I can feel or catch with my finger nail. I don’t feel this one. To just look at it you can’t even see it. 

13 minutes ago, akroorka said:

X2 now that we can see the poles.

Nice marble this one!!

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So I have a question the other one I have I really don’t think has mica. I can’t really tell but it appears to only have one pontil spot. Which I’m assuming would mean it’s the first from the rod? Does that make a difference? 

20 minutes ago, akroorka said:

I will comment on the first image and the last one as well in the OP.

The first is a nice corkscrew and the last one qualifies as a-----

Agreed.

Nice find--it may have been found in a bag of sold/marketed marbles vs one from a dig.

Very cool find!

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I appreciate all the information and kindness from everyone. I have always just been drawn to the old marbles. I just grab jars when I go to estate sales or antique stores. I haven’t participated in online sales or purchased expensive individual ones. I love finding them in the ground most. I have never paid a lot of attention until recently. This group is just one of the best I have found.

2 minutes ago, jeslar1976 said:

So I have 2 I always thought it was some kind of damage until I started reading more. 

It almost looks like glitter or chips but it’s perfectly smooth. I mean you can feel the uneven surface but it’s not a chipped surface if that makes sense.

8 hours ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said:

Show some more pics of that green one. I see the Mica on the bottom left of the pic you showed. 

So I have 2 I always thought it was some kind of damage until I started reading more. 

1 minute ago, Ric said:

I think that's a machine-made marble that got spun - hard to tell who made it though. It happened from time to time.

Thank you!

15 minutes ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said:

I see the Mica in #2 it's definelyy a German Mica #4 looks like a snake type corkscrew I bet it glows under uv really bright. # 5 is a vitro and # 6 may be an akro or cac 

It does glow super bright I could use that bugger light a night light.. more pics of the orange one. I have a few that are almost identical to it just different colors. Thank you for the info. I have been non stop trying to figure these out😂 people in this house are starting to get annoyed. 

1 hour ago, Ric said:

I think #1 (Lazy Cork/Patch), #4 (Auger Corkscrew), #5 (Patch) are Akro, I don't see mica in #2. I agree #3 is Master (Brushed Patch). #6 is hard to tell without more views. #7 looks like a Ravenswood and #8 looks like a weak Alley Chalky to me.

The white line in the one you call chalky had me. So weird I can feel it. I had no clue thank you

I love looking through all these pictures and conversations. I think I’m finally getting somewhere. 1st… Akro corkscrew?

2nd….. German handmade mica.. 

3rd….. Master marble brushed patch?

4th….. corkscrew? Im not sure on the maker of this one yet. Then I have a couple I just don’t know.

so if not vitro im going to make a guess of marble king. It doesnt fit what I have read about peltier or heaton. It looks like a hybrid.