Steph Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Here's a mystery mib of mine. For the longest while I thought it was ceramic or paper mache. (lol ... I was confused with Gutta Perchas) Now I realize that color is painted on, like latex housepaint. I've seen one other like it ... and no one recognized that one either. What unsolved mysteries and general oddballs do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemansion Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 speaking of Latex paint - what about those "Civil War" marbles - :doh: I actually put up a discussion about these marbles on my blog today. http://www.marblemansion.blogspot.com/ The original article from the Atlanta Journal is quoted there....neat history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 Here is a flame/swirl nobody has ever ID'd with any certainty. The colors in the photo are pretty true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibcapper Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 how about trying alley .. or champion. colors sure match up with some alleys. bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssp2 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Here's a mystery mib of mine. For the longest while I thought it was ceramic or paper mache. (lol ... I was confused with Gutta Perchas) Now I realize that color is painted on, like latex housepaint. I've seen one other like it ... and no one recognized that one either. What unsolved mysteries and general oddballs do you have? Steph, I bought a tube of those marbles in houston at the museum around 1995 or so. After a few years the paint started coming off and I realized I had a tube of painted marbles too. When the paint comes off you have worthless mibs, probably imperials. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 kewl! I mean, sorry for your paint loss! but kewl, someone has seen 'em before ! When I saw it in the lot I was hoping to buy, I was so excited. I thought it might be really special. But hey, I still like it, still treat it nice even though it's just a painted marble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Chamberlain Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 There's a lot of those 1" glass marbles that have been painted some rather nicely. This one has a sponge pottery appearance. You got 'Sponge-Bobed!' Bill I agree that it's Alley or Champion. More likely Alley but..... And those CW marbles. Will they ever quit? Actually they have validity as they have been determined to be Ball Mill Balls and from the 1840s. Only problem is that some unscrupulous people got into a wealth of them, doctored them up and sold them wholesale to unsuspecting and suspecting antique & collectible dealers all over the SE during the time of the Atlantic Olympics. They do indeed have a life of their own now with no where to go buy up unfortunately. I've some myself! David Chamberlain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 cant say it enuff vt i love that blue bee,, stunning,,, i got one of them star mibs that u can barely see the star and it came out of an old old estate sale, it surprised me to here that all were faked ,,bj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Here's an old pic of an oddball. I've posted it before but something made me remember it today. Still a mystery. It's about an inch. In hand it looks like an opaque black marble with a white stripe. One day I looked more closely and saw it had a clear crevice with some other colors. Easily overlookable. But they come out well in a photo. (click to enlarge a bit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelnmarbleous Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Steph, that sure does look a lot like some Masters ive seen and had... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 but opaque black? (for most of it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feelnmarbleous Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 Yep, check out some of these, there opaque black.... some of the brushes and ribbons actually dive down and back out if that makes sense, so they appear on the surface and below it, then some of them actually had like little clear channels... I can dig through some of my Masters i have left and see if i have nay Opaque ones left.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manddrakes Posted August 19, 2009 Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 Mystery marble, your thoughts! Thanks Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted August 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2009 I'll toss Alley on the table for consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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