leroy65 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 It has come to my attension that there may possible be some old German handmade marbles that contain aventurine. My question is: have you ever seen this and if so in what old German handmade marbles. I have a friend that says he has one. I haven't seen it as yet, but will soon. He also has an old german handmade that has a Lutz core. The core is fairly small in diameter and goes from pole to pole in the center of the marble and I have seen this one. It is the only one of it's kind that I have seen in the 30 plus years that I have been collecting.----Leroy---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Yes - I have seen handmades with what collectors currently refer to as "aventurine" in (usually) the green. Of course this is caused by adding too much metal colorant to the color batch - causing it to be over-saturated and the metal flakes precipitate out - just as in machine mades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marblesteve Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 I have two German handmades with what we call "aventurine": a start-of-cane latticinio and an onionskin. But I have reserved in my cases spots for other known types: divided core and solid core. I am sure there are others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjohn691500 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 a while ago i had santa rich try and fix this ribbon core for me, i knew it was a long shot but it was one strike away from falling apart into a bunch of pieces, the green in the band has aventurine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Dog Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 I have a Joseph Coat with it in the green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 I'd forgotten that aventurine is actually an accident. Funny that we value it so highly! Here are a couple handmades with some sparkles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 (edited) Guess I'll try PhotoBucket. Jeez.....Where's the preview button so we can see if something is going to post? Edited June 20, 2012 by Steph code fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VTAndrea Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 OK, I give up. Apparently you have to do this on a regular basis to remember how to make photos show up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 Andrea, I'll see if I can translate the code into something which shows up. Got it. Sweet mibs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryT35 Posted June 20, 2012 Report Share Posted June 20, 2012 A few more with aventurine....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted June 21, 2012 Report Share Posted June 21, 2012 Ditto on the green in the handmades, don't give up on the pics VT, those were worth it! but I have seen lutz, on German Lats which doesn't look deliberate either. Probably contamination since it's just a single strand. Came across a banded lutz with a red noodle core in bad shape. There are odd ones out there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JVVmarbles Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Here's a pic of a antique latt core with (deliberate) Lutz bands: And I'm really sure Aventurine was used on purpose in German handmades, I've seen 2 aventurine solid core swirls (so beautiful) and a lot of Joseph's coats with a lot of Aventurine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaboo Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 i have 2 listed on ebay right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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