Misnomers

[Steph]

What are your favorite marble misnomers?

 

Was thinking today about how for quite some time I thought wirepulls were actually formed by dragging a wire around through the molten glass.  

[wvrons]

I don't have a single dug marble in my collection.

They all came together so they are all one company and old. 

Been in the attic, barn, basement, cellar, under the house, untouched for 75+ years, but has a Jabo. 

Fractured but mint.

Wet mint. 

But it says so in the book.

It has a name, it has to be worth a lot.

Dug marbles are all damaged.

Cat Eye marbles have no value.

Have you lost your marbles.

The marble machine makes the type, pattern or style marble. 

Red is oxblood. 

I will not drop your marble on concrete.

It is a vintage Jabo.

WV swirl marbles are junk.

I can identify every marble.

It is old, it was in a antique store.

They are old so they are worth a lot.

I saw  one on ebay for $1000.00 .

I will buy a book with pictures, for identification of every marble.

WV swirls cannot be separated.

Rare.

I know what I have.

Alley never used aventurine.

Paul Bunyan marbles were made by Ravenswood Novelty.

Machine made with a pontil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Steph]

Just off the top of your head 

[Alan]

• "As made".    An excuse for damage on a marble that is somehow supposed to matter less than it is
• "Hybrid".   Supposedly a cross between two distinctly different known marble types, although rarely is.  Suggests rarer, therefore more valuable
• "Same run".  Two or more machine-mades that were supposed made at the same moment (despite the fact that type was likely made for years).  Suggests rarer, therefore more valuable
• "Experimental".  Suggests inside retro knowledge that the manufacturer was engaged in a specific experiment.  The source of this nearly century-old insight in unclear.  Applied incorrectly >98% of the time.  A few known Akro examples exist.  Some like the Sky Blue with Oxblood has glass compatibility issues and usually have annealing fractures.  The >1" Orange and Blue patches and corks were made in a very small quantity, all discarded for an unknown reason.  Usually suggests rarer, therefore more valuable

Funny how most seek to elevate asking value.

 

Ron had enough above that these are enough for me.

[schmoozer]

They belonged to my great grandfather...🤔

 

I was told they are civil war war era, found in an outhouse in Atlanta.😱

 

The larger ones are worth more than the smaller ones...🤣

 

And the list goes on...