akronmarbles Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Bored at work...some ceramic marbles from Akron :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catfish Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Nice! Not too often I get to see these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 I love looking at ceramic marbles! Just beautiful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 Your boredom is our gain. I like these a lot, especially the Jasper-ish looking ones. And like Derrick, I don't get to see them very often. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Are those from the digging you did and got the little toys? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted February 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Thanks...these are nut dug. I used dug fragments from the factory site to help identify these in the wild - shows and ebay. The group above took me 15 years to assemble. The largest examples in the pic are 2" in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Are the crockery types different color clay mixed or painted on glaze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted February 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 They are true jaspers...different colors of clay mixed. Very hard to find. I know of about 20 - the ones I own and a few that Hansel has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuckEye Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Brian, i need to come down and check out the museum,i am sure I could learn a ton. I am only thirty minutes away in brecksville. I have a few very interesting slags i need your opinion on. By the way, those are beautiful! Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poplarhead Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Hard not to like ceramics and stones.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 26, 2011 Report Share Posted February 26, 2011 Nice collection Don. I like the crockery/stoneware marbles and I sure would like to learn more about them. Could anyone show some American Majolicas, or perhaps provide some thoughts on this? Is it just an odd greenish Bennington? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted February 27, 2011 Report Share Posted February 27, 2011 Never saw a Bennington with that color Ric. It's nice to see pottery marbles that are made in America. Some boring ceramics that i found here LOL. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Nice, Winnie. You have some nice looking Jaspers in there. I also like the mostly white Benningtons with blue eye spots. And I'm not so sure that greenish thing I showed is a Bennington. I was sort of thinking maybe American Majolica but . . .? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 American Majolica - very rare. This one is about 2". This was made by the American Marble and Toy Manufacturing Company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted February 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Distinctive Akron blue glaze color. Not seen on German made ceramic marbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Dog Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Any ideas on this one ya'll? Doesn't look like any Bennington I've seen. It's 1 3/8" and has no eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Wow, Brian. I really like that American Majolica - great marble! Thanks a lot for posting the pics and info. And that cobalt blue is pretty distinctive, but I'm thinking it's going to take me quite a while to really "get it". It seems that some of the Akron marbles don't show any, or as many, significant "eyes" like I'm used to seeing on Benningtons, and most of the Akrons I've seen don't seem to have as complete of color coverage as most of the Benningtons I've seen either. Could you please provide a brief statement of comparison with respect to those two features? Thanks Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Road...that one looks German to me..Ric - yours may be Akron...would need to see it in hand. The Akron blue is copper based....there are examples with lots of eyes, but most examples from Akron were fired in a flat tray and were not touching the marbles next to them. There are examples with complete coverage as well. I can still tell them apart though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1DanS Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 found another one: 1 1/2" and "maybe" this one: 1 5/16" thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 OOOH...is the second one for sale? I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Very nice, Dan. This is fun! These had to slow production . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skycollect Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Is that some green I see in the big marble at the 3:00 position? This group is amazing! My favorite is the big blue jasper looking thing. NICE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flanco Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Great thread!!! Thanks Akronmarbles, I have learned something today. When I first started collecting, I didn't think too much about these kinds of marbles. They were either "Benningtons" "Clay" or "Stone" with a "Lined Crockery" thrown in here and there. Haven't bought one in years, but have a bunch of them that I really like. They range in size from 7/16" for the small lined clays to just under 1 1/2" for the brown and green "bennie". The red one is 1". I have had these for 20+ years. Were they making fakes then? Or is the red one real????? Would really like your opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akronmarbles Posted March 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 Nice one Ric - That is definitely German IMHO. Flanco - your red example is a painted clay, not glazed. Identical marbles made in the states and abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsantaclaus Posted March 2, 2011 Report Share Posted March 2, 2011 I am totally loving the pictures - thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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