Bigc6466 Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Hi, Im new to the group. I have a few marbles that are about 2 inches thick. I have no clue what these are. They were given to me by my grandmother. Please help identify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 22, 2015 Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 Hello. Welcome. That photo is a little small. The marbles look interesting. A bigger photo could help a lot. p.s. Adding a ruler to the photo could also help so we can see how close to 2 inches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc6466 Posted February 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2015 I cant get to load bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Hmmmm. Still wish I could see more. This pic is only 62 Kb. The size limit is supposed to be somewhere around 450 kb. Well, okay, let's see. The green one looks like it could be a modern machine-made. (Maybe made in the last 20 years in Mexico.) The middle one could possibly be a a modern one which was made by hand -- if it is glass. For the brownish one on the right I think I see some circular motion which is interesting, but I can't see enough to make a guess. Maybe more views might help. (Also, I better double check to see if this one is glass, as opposed to stone.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc6466 Posted February 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 Will try and post better pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 It looks like you might have inherited a contemporary collection. "Contemporary" is a name given to art glass marbles made in the last 40 or so years. (I think I have that number roughly right but maybe someone else will correct me.) I'm not an expert. The name which comes to mind for me with this one is a Snakeskin made by someone name Gibson. Hopefully someone else will come in and confirm or correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 I don't have a guess for the maker of this one but it definitely looks contemporary to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 This one is a little different. It has a bit of a look of a slag (a type of vintage marble). I'm still going to guess contemporary but the simplicity of the style is intriguing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 So those are my guesses for this initial group. If you have the other marbles in a central location, maybe you could take a picture of the whole group and we could get an idea of whether it's all newer or a mix of old and new. p.s., I'm going to move this thread to the main chat area so that more people familiar with contemps might see it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted February 23, 2015 Report Share Posted February 23, 2015 all are very nice looking marbles!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 I uploaded more of Bigc's pics into an album in the gallery. I'm still a bit punchy from a couple of busy days so I'm just gonna post the album for now and hopefully others will browse it and maybe add some helpful comments. There's a mixture of old and new, with many common, and maybe some not quite so common. This photo, for example, has some vintage marbles in it. The middle jar has many Marble Kings in it, which are on the common side but still are classics. (It looks like it may also have some other vintage patches in it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 P.s., those are probably good marble books to start with but at least two of them are ones I don't have so I can't compare them with the ones I do have. The kids books are ahdorable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sissydear Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 That is a Charles Gibson snakeskin and I think the green one is also a Gibson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Thanks, Edna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 It looks like you might have inherited a contemporary collection. "Contemporary" is a name given to art glass marbles made in the last 40 or so years. (I think I have that number roughly right but maybe someone else will correct me.) I'm not an expert. The name which comes to mind for me with this one is a Snakeskin made by someone name Gibson. Hopefully someone else will come in and confirm or correct. IMG_1935_40pct.jpgIMG_1936_40pct.jpgIMG_1940_40pct.jpg Thats a contemporary Snakeskin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 These are called Benningtons. Well, at least some are. Benningtons are famous for their eyes. You can see two nice ones on the right end of the middle row. On the top row, the two on the right look like they might not be Benningtons but some other kind of ceramic. Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ann Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I have both of these books -- the yellow book on the left is the first book on marbles as a collectible, dates to sometime in the 1960s, before Paul Baumann's first book came out in the 1970s. The orange one on the right is later, early 1980s, and I think it's the first book on marbles that Everett Grist published. He became well-known in the marble-collecting community. The reliability of the information in them is questionable these days, and in some cases flat-out wrong, especially in the yellow one. But both are interesting to people who are into marble history. The yellow one [i think the names are Carl Tierson (?) and Murray or Morrison or something else that starts with an M] is particularly hard to find. Or at least it was for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedidoll Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 very nice collection and display!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I wish I had some clear rolling pins. Attractive vintage mix in here -- maybe 1930's to 1960's. Nothing standing out as high dollar but between the rolling pins and the numbers of marbles, there is some monetary value there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigc6466 Posted February 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Yeah there's 5 rolling pins. I would not mind parting with a couple of those, but i don't want to be taken advantage of because I have no knowledge of their value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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