What The Heck Happened To Marble King Prices???

[bigjohn691500]

didnt the "veenering" happen to colored marbles, ie: colored patch and colored ribbon types only?,, also would it make sense to "veener" a white ribbon or was that just the way the machines worked?,, i been thinking about this thread for a while and them questions made me think, smoke alarm went off in house,,lol,,, bj

[Steph]

It is said that the white we see on type 4 Tiger Eyes is veneered onto a white base. Less expensive glass could be used for the base that way and the kids still got a nice white on the surface.

Bubba's:

Here's an example of the veneering on early Rainbows (Jeff Hale's):

I've presumed that the white was also veneered for, say, the blue and white rainbows.

The last thing I know about Marble King veneering is that Roger Howdyshell said they stopped doing it in 1965.

I was under the impression that none of the following marbles were done by the process known as veneering. There are colored patches but were they "veneered" according to 1950's marbles manufacturers' definition of the term?

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[nutz4lutz]

Spiderman with oxblood in question.

Vintage Watermelon with oxblood - sold for $579.00

I feel they are contemporaneous.

Bob

[duffy]

i agree bob...they prob were made in the same time era... thyre purty fer sure....

[marblemansion]

Spiderman with oxblood in question.

Vintage Watermelon with oxblood - sold for $579.00

I feel they are contemporaneous.

Bob

not following - So Bob is thinking these were made when????

[nutz4lutz]

I think that they are old, made at Saint Mary's before 1959. I've been told that a cache of them were found in St. Marys when work was being done on a bridge near the old Marble King factory site. There are two types of Spiderman marbles that I have purchased from local diggers. There are the oxbloods like above and this type....

I must say, though, that this is just my opinion and Duffy's theory could be right about the oxblood ones. The brighter colored one above, I think has been seen for many years. The one on the left does have a thin ribbon of ox.

Bob

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