lstmmrbls Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Can anyone (maybe Bob) tell me what makes this marble an "End Of Day" https://www.marblecyberauction.com/auction_details.php?name=lot-43-end-of-day-onionskin-1732-mint-90&auction_id=100157 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinemades Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I never understood that naming convention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopacki Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Just looks like a poorly made marble to me. Maybe end of day on this one means the maker was tired. All my best ........... Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Very funny ^^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg11 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Danny... that was a good one... I agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 lol ... good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I never understood that naming convention. Me either. I've eliminated the term from my personal marble terminology. Except when referring to the occasional contemporary named an "end-of-day" by the marble artist. But I don't really like it even then. How the marble maker felt at the end of a long day doesn't make a reasonable type-category to me. Just sayin.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 But I'd be interested to hear EOD clearly defined. And why the one shown is one . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumblebee Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 That's EOJ, or End of Job, the last marble that maker made before being fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I thought the same thing about maker being tired at the end of the day!!! But I thought I read something about only one pontil on an end of the day? Something about only one cut mark cuz the end of the cane was reached? Or maybe I just imagined I read that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinemades Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 It is supposed to be marbles made with the left over scrap glass at the end of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 That's EOJ, or End of Job, the last marble that maker made before being fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 I thought I read something about only one pontil on an end of the day? Something about only one cut mark cuz the end of the cane was reached? I get confused when thinking about (1) end-of-day and (2) end-of-cane. I usually have to stop and think about it for a minute. I think it's two cut marks for an end-of-cane marble -- one for where the next-to-last marble was sheared off of the cane, and one for where the last marble was sheared off of the punty, Sometimes resulting in those crazy partial ribbons & latticinios and whatnot as the internal (and surface) design elements ran out. And beginning-of-cane marbles would have one cut or shear mark. At least as I understand it. I also think the end-of-day marbles machinemades is talking about -- marbles made with the leftover scrap glass at the end of the day -- could have either one or two or no cut marks visible, depending on technique . . . for me it's understandable only with contemporaries. Some contemporary artists -- Doug Ferguson comes to mind first -- have made a habit of making end-of-day marbles that are recognizably such, even to me, and I've liked some of them enough to buy them . . . But I've never really visually understood the old Germans that have been labeled end-of-day. Or I've never seen or been shown any good examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mon Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Me either. I've eliminated the term from my personal marble terminology. Except when referring to the occasional contemporary named an "end-of-day" by the marble artist. But I don't really like it even then. How the marble maker felt at the end of a long day doesn't make a reasonable type-category to me. Just sayin.' Throw the flag, throw the flag...penalty on Ann! I said "just saying" in an other post and galen made fun of me....and I said we could keep saying it and now Ann does it.....penalty....(in your best Jim Nabors voice) Citizen's Arrest, Citizen's Arrest, Citizen's Arrest! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted January 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 I never, no how, made fun of no one........ Just saying. And I brought this up because Bob continues to promote and use a term that I have no idea what it means any more., Originally it was the big blotchy onion skins but they have other names now. And Bob uses it for almost every Onionskin he sells???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Throw the flag, throw the flag...penalty on Ann! I said "just saying" in an other post and galen made fun of me....and I said we could keep saying it and now Ann does it.....penalty....(in your best Jim Nabors voice) Citizen's Arrest, Citizen's Arrest, Citizen's Arrest! lol OK, OK, I'm backin' up 15 yards . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibstified Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 I always thought it referred to marbles made at the "end of the day", assuming that had to do with using left over glass, cane, etc. I have wondered (imagined, speculated) that the CAC marble makers might have had a similar practice, making multi colored lunch box mibs. I understand the process would have been totally different with machine versus cane made mibs but the creative fun of using left over glass to make unique "end of day" mibs could have been similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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