ness Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 I had received 4 of these Cat Eye's... How rare are these? Hope you can see the hole's in the pictures.. will probably sell two of them and keep two for myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 I have a small number. I like them. Wouldn't know how to market them. For what it's worth, I believe yours are made in Japan, could be 1950's, perhaps 1960's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnbar Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 I have none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Oregon Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 Are they actually holes or are they bubbles on the vane? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemover Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 i've seen some with bubbles--they look weird because of the reflective properties of the bubbles. i've not seen any with actual holes. they are probably early Japanese cat's-eyes, which would mean they are not rare, although some of the early single-color 4-vaned ones out of Japan were very nicely made...they had really FLAT vanes that met dead-center in the marble so if you look at them from the "end" where a seam would be, they make a + . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted February 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 these are actually holes.. I had looked with my loupe and you can see through them plus compare where they are on the other side of the vane and see them.. You can see the light coming through on one of the pictures.. there pretty cool looking.. sure caught my eye.. but out of hundreds of my cat's I have never seen anything like these.. plus they do have lots of bubbles... thanks again.. ness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinx Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 I agree, they are some early Japanese and have bubbles, not holes. I've only found this phenomenon on the aqua color, so I wonder if there was some chemical reaction occurring. What size are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted March 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 5/8" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 I tried to find mine but I think I may have gotten rid of them. (I know, can you believe it?) They sorta frustrated me. I remember at least one which had silvery bubbles on the vanes. Probably aqua. Another definitely had holes, with bubbles going through the vanes. How many? Can't remember. Not a large number. It was green. It was a little bigger than average but not a shooter. And I never could figure out what I wanted to do with them. The colors weren't quite right for me to want to save them for that. I like vivid and bright colors on my foreign cats. And the green one might have been nicked. hmmm. Can't quite remember but I know I kept going back and forth over what to do with them. I may finally have decided that I was spending too much time worrying about damaged error marbles and I may have put them in a big lot to get rid of so I wouldn't "waste" any more time with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ness Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 it's up for auction... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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