Another beauty

[budwas]

Another one that I've had for years. It has a nice round pontil on one pole at start of the nine or sweral and an indented crease on the other in the white. Any help?  

[budwas]

Oops not sure what happened to the pics. They were cropped and square. 

[Steph]

That is a handgathered slag.

Could be one of the earliest American machine-made marbles.  Quite possible M.F. Christensen.  

The little indented crease is called a "cutline".  The other side has what we call a "nine and tail".  (I see you mentioned the nine.)  What you're seeing as a pontil might be a chip or an airbubble.

The 9 and tail is where a little extra bit of glass was quickly whirled around the end of the marble before the person snipped at the cutline and dropped the molten ball onto the marble rollers.  So in the general course of things no punty would have been touching the marble at that particular spot on the end.  

If it's MFC, it dates back to between 1903 and 1917.  

Other companies also made handgathered marbles, but no one will call the marble cops if you assume MFC here.  

[budwas]

Lol, the marble cops. That's funny! 

Thanks Steph, your the best!

[budwas]

One more please and I'll stop bothering you. 

[budwas]

Oh, it's a little over 7/8"

[Steph]

If the rest of this one looks about like this -- no clear 9 and no obvious seams, then I'll vote Akro slag here.   The 1920's version.   (That would be the gobfed version -- not handgathered.)

[ann]

What she ^^^^^ said.

[budwas]

K, thanks! 

It's easy to have lots of old marbles when your old yourself. Haha