Very Contemporary IMO. I have seen several new marbles nearly identical to this one. I even have a similar marble. The easily seen surface ridges would mean the marble has not been polished. It does lookm rather poorly made IMO.
It seems so obvious to me I im amazed everyone does not see it immediately. Guess I must just be a little more off than most(LOL) as your not the first that did not see it. This should help
I have heard of (and seen) a colored layer added on top of the clear but never heard of (or seen)another layer of clear over the colored on the new redoes.
We have the Joker and new found(but long overlooked)Penguin on the same marble. While at the Canton show I had shown the Joker like face on my CAC marble and she was mildly amazed. A short time later she asked if I knew ther was also a penguin on the marble. I was stunned as she turned the marble slightly and there was a near perfect penguin head coming out of the Jokers chin.
I lived in a home in Arcata Ca,(3rd oldest in town) that had newspapers glued to the inside of the exterior walls with civil war battle accounts as some of the stories. We tried everything we could to remove some of them with no luck. So we just left some of them exposed to the inside and it was a pretty neat look.
I have no idea whats going on, but I must be doing something right when I can even find a yellow, lavender and pink mixed in with my slags!!!! Although I think my partial color blindness may have had something to do with that.
Sorry Rich, none came from your show. I did get them in Canton and from some knucklehead back in Ohio after I got home from your show. Thanks Mike! And the first one I found in my marbles mixed in with the slags!! Now thats a great find!!
Don't be in a hurry, is the best advice I ever heard for marble collectors. Save the coins for an example you will always be happy to have. Then there is no problem trying to unload the damaged ones and you will always be proud and satisfied with the one you have. Just my thought on the subject.