PittsburghMarbles Posted February 2, 2023 Report Share Posted February 2, 2023 This isn’t really a score as it was free. I went down to Paden City and was in the park and not sure if the park was doing maintenance or what, but below the railroad tracks and in the park looked like maybe they were doing pipe work or something and there was loads of MK cullet and marbles just sitting on the surface and considering it’s public property I figured it was fair game to pick stuff off the surface. Haven’t cleaned any of it yet. Didn’t find any great marbles but some of the cullet was pretty cool. On a sidenote, is any of the alley factory still left? I saw that there is an abandoned factory right next to and north of the MK factory. Is that where alley was? Or maybe it was formerly in the MK factory building, not sure. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted February 3, 2023 Report Share Posted February 3, 2023 WOW ! I would call that a score ! Ya gotta love the funky stuff🔥🔥🔥🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe2 Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 The Best of Both Worlds, having marbles and living next to a marble factory 🏭 . ❤ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 4, 2023 Report Share Posted February 4, 2023 ^ I don’t live in Paden City, I live in Pittsburgh but I go down to all the marble towns almost every weekend. I live within 2 hours of basically all antique and vintage American marble MFGs, except for Peltier and Alox obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 Just got this “spotted dick” marble. I believe they were made in Germany originally from the same time period the German handmades were being produced. But considering their name is spotted dick, than perhaps they were made in England. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted February 5, 2023 Report Share Posted February 5, 2023 3 hours ago, PittsburghMarbles said: Just got this “spotted dick” marble. I believe they were made in Germany originally from the same time period the German handmades were being produced. But considering their name is spotted dick, than perhaps they were made in England. Nice VHTF mib Chris Thanks for postin the pic, most don't even know what one of these is or what it looks like, nice, clean example. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 15 hours ago, Chad G. said: Nice VHTF mib Chris Thanks for postin the pic, most don't even know what one of these is or what it looks like, nice, clean example. Thanks. I don’t know much about them. Were they made in Germany during the time period the glass handmades were? Or are they earlier, like 1860s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoozer Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 1 hour ago, PittsburghMarbles said: Thanks. I don’t know much about them. Were they made in Germany during the time period the glass handmades were? Or are they earlier, like 1860s? Don’t know dating but the “spotted Dick” is humorous. It is a UK pudding in a can, you can also buy “spotted Dick with Cream”. My wife lost it in the grocery store when I showed her a can🤣🤣🤣 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgardenplants Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Today at the Weber County, Utah Antique and Vintage Show. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoozer Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 9 hours ago, rockgardenplants said: Today at the Weber County, Utah Antique and Vintage Show. Great find! Is this a Vacor, or an AKRO? need more pics please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 14 minutes ago, schmoozer said: Great find! Is this a Vacor, or an AKRO? need more pics please. Looks like a Vacor Michelangelo to me 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe2 Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 5 minutes ago, Chad G. said: Looks like a Vacor Michelangelo to me X1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe2 Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Joe2 said: X1 Looks like 4 Michael Angelo's 1st print 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmoozer Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 3 hours ago, Chad G. said: Looks like a Vacor Michelangelo to me Imagine if it was an AKRO corkscrew with those colors🤑🤑🤑 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 3 hours ago, Chad G. said: Looks like a Vacor Michelangelo to me I agree---- a nice one though. Marble--On!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Had an awesome day at the canton marble show. But what was even more awesome is that afterwards I went down to an antique store and asked if they had any marbles. He was like well I have many jars in the back that I’ve had for 30 years and never wanted to sell them. But for some reason he decided to sell them to me. The individual bag is just some stuff from the top of one of the jars, and it’s all mint. It’s going to take me forever to look through all the marbles and can’t wait. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Here’s the stuff I bought at the marble show today, not really a score but nice non the less. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 11, 2023 Report Share Posted February 11, 2023 Sorry to be posting so much tonight, this is just so exciting. Haven’t found this many good jars for a while. Here’s everything dumped out. I’m sure there will be some pretty big heartbreakers in here but I’ve already pulled out a lot of really nice mint stuff. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgardenplants Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 7 hours ago, Chad G. said: Looks like a Vacor Michelangelo to me Absolutely a Vacor Michelangelo! I picked up four more today and a super flamey Alley Agate. Pics coming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgardenplants Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 1 hour ago, PittsburghMarbles said: Sorry to be posting so much tonight, this is just so exciting. Haven’t found this many good jars for a while. Here’s everything dumped out. I’m sure there will be some pretty big heartbreakers in here but I’ve already pulled out a lot of really nice mint stuff. Amazing score! “ 1 hour ago, PittsburghMarbles said: Sorry to be posting so much tonight, this is just so exciting. Haven’t found this many good jars for a while. Here’s everything dumped out. I’m sure there will be some pretty big heartbreakers in here but I’ve already pulled out a lot of really nice mint stuff. “many jars in the back” would perk my interest through the roof! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgardenplants Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 7 hours ago, Joe2 said: Looks like 4 Michael Angelo's 1st print Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockgardenplants Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 Today’s marbles from the Weber County Antique Show… so much fun, so tired… last photo shows the two day gathering. 😉 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 ^ those pelts are great. Here’s some of the mint stuff I’ve gone through with the jars I got today. 3 yasuda marbles, 2 faceted agates, loads of awesome vitros, some super nice akros, a nice CAC, pelts, alleys etc. The second pic is of a marble I didn’t even know existed, appears to be a vitro caged cateye but never seen the blue base glass before. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 So named Vitro"Windex cat" has a blue base like that, usually w/ white or light colored ribbons, "Killer score BTW" LINK :: https://www.allaboutmarbles.com/search.php?keywords=vitro+windex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PittsburghMarbles Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 ^ this vitro has brownish red ribbons, doesn’t look like the mibs in your link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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