Ric Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 All from the same group. The biggest is just over 3/4" . . . German or CAC or . . . ? Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 they look German to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 They look like German or at least what I call mine . just the way they have the color mostly on one side . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Open seams and The lack of a S or crazy looping on at least one side of the marble says not CAC to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted July 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Thanks for the input guys. German is what I was thinking but I don't yet have enough experience with these types to be confident in my assessment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 Ric,most of the 2 seam Ger.slags have indeed straight stripes running from one seam to the other. IMO these are the younger types. I think your brown one is older. Galen,I could be wrong but i think these 2 seam ger.slags have loopings and some of them have their seams closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 10, 2012 Report Share Posted July 10, 2012 2 seam ger.slag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 Yes, some German slags have looping and minor S folds but most do not. I have yet to see a CAC with straight color striping on every part of the marble, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orbboy Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 German all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Dog Posted July 11, 2012 Report Share Posted July 11, 2012 I wouldn't call them Slags unless they had some white going on inside the marble as well as on the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 I call the transparent marbles with white only on the surface slags. To be a striped transparent there should be a color striping other than white IMO. Why these started getting called striped transparents is beyond me. There are many CAC slags with all the white on the surface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spara50 Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Striped transparent seems to describe them well. They have stripes, and are transparent. More than one color is never present in this style marbles. They have an obvious pattern to them that was put there on purpose, unlike slags whose patterns are almost always random, with a few exceptions. The problem is that both names are already used for another style marble and makes it confusing. I like to call them German striped transparents. Ahh, naming marbles, everyone has an opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 We are all going to call them what we want but this is a German Striped Transparent. Those others will always be slags to me. Some slags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 12, 2012 Report Share Posted July 12, 2012 Not as nice as Galen's striped transp,here's another one. About the 2 seam slags,i think they're made in a long period of time. They are so very different from each other,not only the glass differ (good quality glass and lesser) but also the pattern. winnie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 That is a very nice marble Winnie. What size is it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibcapper Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 location where these were made ?? time frame ?? thanks. bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 The boxed ones come in the same boxes the German handmades and porcelain types come in so I venture to say late 20s -30s until war time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 It's 15/16,has a bit playwear,and what size is your's? I was wondering if they were also made after the war,but 20-40 is safe,for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Mine is 5/8" And I just do not see toy glass marbles being made in war torn East Germany after the war. There was not even enough natural gas to heat homes let alone fire furnaces to make toy marbles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinemades Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Why not sixties or seventies? Why does it have to go that far back. I had similar marbles when I was growing up. Sami Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziggyzora Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 German striped transparent sounds good to me. Slag glass was around before the term was used for marbles, to me it makes sense that the slag marbles should resemble slag glass These 3 pics would call striped transparent and this one German slags All of them pre WW2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 That is an original box Sami. And these types have been dug at marble sites closed since the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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