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How crazy is this. I just looked at the thermometer and it is exactly 58.5 F 7:34pm

Maglite Indian IMO

CAC

Neat observation Mon and I wish it was just the S shape, but it is also each end of the S looping to opposite sites of the 2 seams. And then there is the clasping hand formatoin of some which gives the actual S. Put your palms together pointing opposite directions and grasp your fingers together, Now look at the S on the side of your hand where your pinky fingers are. These two pics help show it some what I observe that drives me nuts.. Bottom left really shows it. And then lets mention how 1/2 a Guinea can be blotches on one side and the other side stretched. OUCH OWEY OUCH IT HURTS!!!!! But I have already had to have my skull put back together several times trying to figure it all out. So I am trying to get back to just enjoying them for their beauty for now. And my head is still hurting from that last MFC discussion. Now lets really screw things up

It is 7:25 PM and the outside thermometer is all the way down to 58.5F

Stream that comes from an orifice, fairly common at many dig sites, Most are from swirls so they are not as large but thats all it is IMO.

Musicals were usually just Okay for me, but this was one of the greatest movies of all time. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064782/

Messed up Akro is all I can really guess

It seems that whenever there was a box pot bowl whatever of marbles somewhere in a house any marble that was found through the years ended up in that box pot bowl or whatever

Yes, maybe, or Peltier Nothing about it screams CAC to me

Looks like a Vitro cat eye type to me. And out of the 50 plus collections that were supposed to only have old marbles in them that I have examined only 3 did not have at least some newer marbles. And most had more new than old.

Wonderful stuff Mike, I was smiling the whole time I read it. So there were pots of glass. But they appear to be glass made ready to put in the Monkey Furnaces. These must have been tiny furnaces for each team as they only had one to two steps to the machines. Makes a bit more sense than pots of cooling glass. Cool stuff, and it gets me back to thinking my impression is pretty accurate, the poor shearer just did a lot more work than I imagined. That helped a lot and my brain is not hurting so much,(I hardly slept)(LOL) And I gotta say it sure does sound like it was only one marble per gather

Kinda neat with the shear mark. No need to call it a cane though.

Beautiful!! now why does it look like Acme Realer base glass(it is opalescent is it not?), it certainly is not a Pelt.

Looks like it was possibly a CAC slag that got way too much white. A not uncommon feature on some of their slags.

Sorry Mike I was attempting to use my moronic semi sense of humor and it doesn't always come off that way.( Moronic yes, humor no) I really do appreciate you posting this, Now why was that guy making up all that stuff in his deposition(LOL) Looks like Mon #110even made an attempt to get this thread back on topic, glad it didn't work(LOL) Now how in the heck the 2 man team made 10-12,000 marbles in 8 hours as stated going through that process is going to take me quite some time to get a grip on And he states furnace not pots. Was there a furnace for each team? Can't see the guys all using and walking to and from a single furnace??????? Now brain smoldering>>>>>. Or maybe the Pots I read about were another name for a small individual furnace....... Ouch its starting to hurt Time to go look at a pretty marble and clear brain_____________

Ah hah! great read Mike!!! Sure was tough getting that out of you. Thanks so much! Now to change brain

Almost looks like a Mushroom Variant??

Some where I picked up 70white/30trans for MFC and 30white /70Trans for Akro. This being why it is so hard to see through most MFCs, oh well, Off to the archives(LOL) Mon, I think that was in the original patent applied for in 1902 Granted several years later, And at that time the item that the patent was applied for was often in use before applying or having the patent granted And Godown just a swirling motion on the punty for the Gatherer, one pot with I believe the 2 types of glass being layed in a way to give certain patterns. This was really done in a special way at the sites where the horizontals where made. Canes do not produce 9s and tails. Here is part of a contract at Peltier for Arnold Fiedler. kinda neat.

Sorry Mike, Just trying to get you to give up any source for your revelations, I certainly agree with you on the multiple machines but I do believe the patent states as the ball gets hard the resistance increases forcing the rollers apart allowing the ball to drop through(this is a mystical event for me and I have always wondered how that worked) I was hoping you had some more great reading information for us about the tools used etc. I am terribly sorry I came off as the poo head . Johns machine may have a lever but it is not an exact replica of what was used at MFC IMO. Found the part in the patent

Mon I understand that as the marble got hard it eventually forces the pulleys apart and the marble drops through, no need for anyone to do anything to let it drop through. Come on Mike what gives. You got movies? Secret squirrel information. You got me really wondering whats going on. Like how do you know the rollers are all different and stayed that way int toy marble production. Either you got some secret squirrel info and your a real poo head for not sharing. Or your just giving your post so much conviction you get a bunch of fish on the hook. Well you got a good nibble from me now give up what up. One thing for sure is I don't think anyone was flinging hot glass globs and getting them to land in the small area between the two pulleys. Also with your description the same amount of the same type of marble was made in equal amounts in every size, and sorry but that just was not the case, Nice try though

Mon, if you look at the first pic the gatherers hand is almost on that white area of the punty. Not so sure that is glass on the punty. And Mike, where does your info for the cup catcher thingy come from and are you saying that is what is in the guys hand??? You been holding out on some secret squirrel stuff? And your slowing down the process having the guy catch the glob shear the glob and the try and plop it into that small area at the top of the 2 pulleys that the marble goes into to get rounded. I like the thought of the glob coming off right over the spot and the guy shearing it as it flows off. Wouldn't even need a funnel thingy. Maybe the guy in the pic is a newbie or helping a new gatherer that doesn't quite know what he is doing.

I think you got the item Mon!!!!!, So without three hands we would have to eliminate the scissors or Mikes cup thingy I do see Brian is talking about reworking glass on the Punty. Again not something I believe would have been done in the speed needed for the process, And there was no torch or furnace near by and no marvers to use his process IMO. But you guys are gaining a little bit in that potholed highway I have in my brain. Thanks so much for putting up with my sometimes overbearing way of posting my ideas. I know it often comes off like I am a know it all( and I have to admit I kind of am(LOL)) but I am just looking for good discussions (or great arguements.}. I wish more would play. And not like at AAM where a bunch of newbies seem to bow down to any one that posts knowledgeably and decent disagreements with a select group are not allowed at all. Now I am gong to have to try and schedule some time back at the local glass company. http://benicianglass.com/ They make some killer paperweights and one artist made me a couple marbles years ago. I have met David at this studiohttp://www.lindsayartglass.com/ but have not spent any time there.

Mike can you blow that up, It looks like a huge cup thing he is holding. Maybe full of molten glass to help speed up the process. If it was a type of measuring device for catching the proper amount of glass I would think it would be much smaller, Or do you have verification that they used such a device??