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Asking for some help on another. 5/8 dia. Is it a creased pontil of a hand gathered transitional or just a cold in the glass? It's very long for a pontil.

I'm thinking Yusada here. Is that the shear mark in 2nd pic? Or just a cold roll Corkscrew? 11/16" dia. Thanks you.

15 hours ago, shiroaiko said:

 

If a transitional lacks a pontil and is still from Japan, Nakanishi could be a possible maker. He came from a samurai family in Osaka and also ran a large appliance and gas company—the biggest in the city at the time. In the marble field, he filed utility model patents in 1932 and 1933. The 1933 utility model 18246 describes a marble-making machine equipped with a burner to fire-polish a cut end of transitionals. He also made cut glassware. 

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An advertisement for Nakanishi marbles appears in Industrial Nippon To-day, published in 1935. The production volume shown in that ad is larger than that of Isogami when he switched to machine-made marbles in 1939. Isogami had fully automated production with 14 workers, turning out 1.5 million marbles per month. The number in the ad suggests that Nakanishi may also have transitioned to machine-made production in 1935. 

I haven’t found an exact match for this topic so far.

Thank you for that, very interesting. From appearance would you think this is actually Japanese? 

17 hours ago, akroorka said:

This is just not a MFC imho.

We need some more opinions here.

@Ric?

Marble-On!!

Been a hard one to get a consensus on id in other as well.

With the lack of a pontil, others are saying MFC.

Going back and forth with others trying to place this one. 13/16" dia. Transparent purple base. 

1 hour ago, VaMarbles said:

European for the purple one on the right

Both same very dark transparent purple. One on right has light shining through it.

A great memorial to a great friend. Ash swirl.

Just picked up these two shooters. 1" dia. Clear dark purple base. Really dont know what they are as ive had Alley, CAC and Velligglas all thrown at them. Would love to figure this one out. Thanks