Road Dog Posted January 30, 2015 Report Share Posted January 30, 2015 The little red slag in the dragon's grasp is .50". A purple 2 seam CAC that is .49" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 A little transitional I just got off ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 Ooooh oooh ooooh ... is that Barberton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marboman Posted January 31, 2015 Report Share Posted January 31, 2015 I don't know about Barberton, it was just in with a group I got recently. It has a regular pontil, kinda thought maybe "Shanghai". But could be Barberton green? Size is 21/32" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 so these are transitionals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 The call them that but they really are not since they were rounded by hand. The ground pontils are not actually Transitionals either as they are a hand made marble. Long ago any marble that showed signs of hand gathering got called a Transitional. It is going to be real hard to get it to end. Transitionals should be hand gathered machine rounded marbles IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godown Posted February 2, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Digging the pictures posted guys some nice mibs Hi Darla love those 2 marbles and i saw them in the other threads the first one i would say in not a transitional but a handmade, the reason i say that is the pontil is still intact it hasn't been altered at the end of the marble making process which basically tells me it wasn't rounded mechanically it also does not exhibit any wear so the pontil is as clearly visible as the day it was made The term transitional comes from the marble being hand gathered cut with scissors drop into machine rollers to be rounded part handmade part machine Transitional Handmades were cut from a long length of " Cane " the cut piece attached to a rod and the marble rounded in a cup no machine hence all hand made Also Edit Or hand gathered as slag types the second marble is a little more tricky but i'm still of the opinion its a handmade as it gives the impression of a pontil and not a shear mark Here below is a pic of a genuine handmade pontil i know this is genuine as like all my collection i found this marble this particular marble was under a house it had rolled between the floor boards and the back door sill and dropped down under the house onto the dirt below were it waited for probably at least a hundred years for me to come along with oodles of enthusiasm armed with sheer determination a dust mask and a little weed rake squeezing into an under house crawl space that tight a 90 kilo man has no business being there Any way back to the topic at hand as the picture shows the pontil on this guy shows the circle like yours created when the rod attached to the now rounded marble was snapped off The marble below doesn't show a pontil but a cut line in the first picture were the marble was cut of the rod with scissors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Dog Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Slag Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 That dark purple is really really pretty!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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