3" China

[MAIN-MARBLE-MAN]

Picked this up today, thought it was interesting, the size is 3 3/8" ..... and solid. The bad thing is, someone ground a spot on the other side and inserted a small metal rod to hold it on a display. Has anyone seen one before?

Thanks, MMM

[MAIN-MARBLE-MAN]

I see I could'nt fool anyone with my carpet ball. Maybe next time.

[Steph]

lol. I figured that's what it was. But that's out of my area of confidence.

So you can see inside it?

[MAIN-MARBLE-MAN]

Heres the other side Steph.

[david Chamberlain]

To put a specific label to what you have here it is referred to as a Crosslined Carpet Bowl and pretty standard size. Baumann states that "Crosslined bowls have three sets of equidistant parallel lines, variable in number, set at right angles to each other." Bowls with less than 9 lines per set and more than 13 are rarer. This one appears to have had some action before being honored by being put on a pedestal. David

[bigjohn691500]

i have one that ive had for yrs, and was always told it belongs to a game, some what like bocce but NOT(david)bocce,, been told that by the best, ole hansel, right up there among the best collectors of mibs,,, bj

[david Chamberlain]

Thought I'd give Baumann another plug here. In his 4th Edition Paul provides '54' pages to Carpet Bowls. It's actually quite amazing! Like a book in itself. David