New Marbles Which Sort Of Look Old

[bumblebee]

I've been told these early run Vacor Twisters could be mistaken for the CAC swirl of this color combo. These earlier ones seem to have richer colors with less bleeding.

[Peltier Mibber]

I agree. 

 

And to add:

Much like other marble makers they started out with higher quality glass too and gradually became cheaper and cheaper glass.

[Marian]

Wow! They all look awesome to me....lol

[Nantucketdink]

I doubt anybody would be able to correctly attribute this marble to the JABO ET Crystal Run, but thats what it is.  Many of the JABO patches without lutz or aventurine might be confused for old marbles.

[Steph]

Oh. My. Gosh.

My one and only guess on that one would have been vintage European. 

[sarab]

Thanks for starting this discussion Steph and to the participants. 

Overall, my general feel is too much shine and lack of rich color and depth of color points to not vintage. I can't keep seams straight (so to speak), so I just tend to go with this huge generality. It works for me, most of the time. But, I'm a newbie (wonder when I can stop using that label?), and haven't seen a zillion marbles like ya'll have. 

Mostly talking about opaques here. 

[Steph]

Thanks, Sara.   That's a decent rule of thumb as far as huge generalities go.  
 

[Steph]

Here's a modern Marble King which was mistaken for a Peltier Rainbo some years back.

 

[sarab]

Interesting that it was mistaken. My rule would fit if I saw it for the first time cause the ribbon placement sure doesn't look Pelt to me. (now a Pelt with similar construction will show up, 😏).

Quick burning question: do you interchange construction and structure when describing marble characteristics? 

[Steph]

What do you mean by interchanging construction and structure?   They sound roughly synonymous but I can see how they could be different.  I probably use the word "structure" more.  Would have to catch myself saying "construction" to see how I apply it. 

[sarab]

Sometimes I use one, sometimes the other. I think I use structure when I'm trying to talk about pattern (flip-flop, ribbons, swirls, etc.) and use construction when I'm talking about things like wispiness, moss, that sort of thing. No biggie, splitting hairs. 

 

[Mojo]

On 8/9/2009 at 4:46 AM, Steph said:

Green Glass Sulphide, 1.25"

Made by Norbert Geitner of Lauscha, Germany.

Here is a more ambitious attempt for marbles in this general category (the intentional repros):

Mostly Pix - " Fakes ", Reproductions, Fantasy, Etc.

I want that one , tell me where i can get it , who has it ? 

[Steph]

1 hour ago, Mojomarblelicious said:

I want that one , tell me where i can get it , who has it ? 

 

 

It's cool, isn't it.  I do not know who has it.  The photo came from an ebay auction.  

[Steph]

Modern glazed marbles, posted by Dani

[Newton]

On 7/8/2017 at 10:18 PM, jeeperman said:

This Vacor Troll might be mistaken for an Alley pistachio by someone just getting the hang of thins. 

Here is a Vacor I have. Size 1.631”!  $1 thrift store buy. 

[akroorka]

That is a nice find and and a very nice ID as well.

Marble--On!!

[treetiger]

On 7/22/2009 at 7:04 PM, Steph said:

Here's a thread for the benefit of newbies and maybe not so newbies.

What examples do you have and/or know about of marbles which you think could be mistaken for old?

Here are a couple of my favorites, these pix from Schusserland.de.

Clownfish sometimes taken to be Master:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/foreign/Clownfisch_16.jpg

And not sure of the name, but some like the two-seamers in this batch have been questioned in the past as possibly vintage:

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/modularforms/foreign/Murmelbild_040.jpg