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1 hour ago, Ric said:

Nice Agate. It looks like it's probably hand-faceted. Do you know how to tell whether it is or not?

 

I'm not entirely sure, what I do remember is someone said you could see on the surface where it had been grounded. My only concern for the two I posted if they were indigenous to Germany it would be great to know I bought these two together with some Japanese clay marbles.

 

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6 minutes ago, Joe2 said:

 

I'm not entirely sure, what I do remember is someone said you could see on the surface where it had been grounded. My only concern for the two I posted if they were indigenous to Germany it would be great to know I bought these two together with some Japanese clay marbles.

 

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I think they have a great chance of being German.

 

But now you have me curious about what a Japanese clay marble looks like.  Maybe show them off in their own thread?

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1 hour ago, Joe2 said:

 

I'm not entirely sure, what I do remember is someone said you could see on the surface where it had been grounded. My only concern for the two I posted if they were indigenous to Germany . . .

I agree with Steph that there is a very good chance that agate is German. The way I check for hand-faceting is to shine a bright light on the marble and look at the small reflection it makes, i.e., the little dot of bright light on the surface of the marble. Then rotate the marble slowly and see if the that little bright spot jumps around or moves smoothly across the surface of the mib. The light spot will appear to wiggle around if the marble is hand-faceted. For comparison, you can do the same using a machine-made glass marble and you will see how the reflection moves smoothly if there are no facets.

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8 minutes ago, Ric said:

I agree with Steph that there is a very good chance that agate is German. The way I check for hand-faceting is to shine a bright light on the marble and look at the small reflection it makes, i.e., the little dot of bright light on the surface of the marble. Then rotate the marble slowly and see if the that little bright spot jumps around or moves smoothly across the surface of the mib. The light spot will appear to wiggle around if the marble is hand-faceted. For comparison, you can do the same using a machine-made glass marble and you will see how the reflection moves smoothly if there are no facets.

Thank you, I will have to check the last I get I posted with the loop the first one does it appear to have facets many of them.

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On 12/17/2022 at 8:00 PM, Ric said:

I agree with Steph that there is a very good chance that agate is German. The way I check for hand-faceting is to shine a bright light on the marble and look at the small reflection it makes, i.e., the little dot of bright light on the surface of the marble. Then rotate the marble slowly and see if the that little bright spot jumps around or moves smoothly across the surface of the mib. The light spot will appear to wiggle around if the marble is hand-faceted. For comparison, you can do the same using a machine-made glass marble and you will see how the reflection moves smoothly if there are no facets.

I typically see how they roll, if they wobble around, they are HF, if they roll smoothly they are machine-ground.

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German Solitaire; Original mint marble set, no box.

I picket this up from England Ebay several years ago.

After I received and began to look for patterns. There're 8 different sets of 3 that are 'Same Cane' on the outer rows. Within the inner most rows, each marble is a different type or pattern from the least colors to the most colorful. It's a set, deliberately packaged with order. Missing one marble would be the red ceramic in center these had then.

Top row: pink and green. Bottom: pink white and green. Right pink blue and white latticinio. Left: Pink blue and white Ribbons. Next row, like the top has a succession of opposing patterns and color in sets.

After that, I saw others especially those with the bright 'European colors' B/C they'd have sets of 3.

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2 hours ago, Jeff54 said:

German Solitaire; Original mint marble set, no box.

I picket this up from England Ebay several years ago.

After I received and began to look for patterns. There're 8 different sets of 3 that are 'Same Cane' on the outer rows. Within the inner most rows, each marble is a different type or pattern from the least colors to the most colorful. It's a set, deliberately packaged with order. Missing one marble would be the red ceramic in center these had then.

Top row: pink and green. Bottom: pink white and green. Right pink blue and white latticinio. Left: Pink blue and white Ribbons. Next row, like the top has a succession of opposing patterns and color in sets.

After that, I saw others especially those with the bright 'European colors' B/C they'd have sets of 3.

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Great set - I have spotted patterns of same canes on several boards too including, as you say, later sets with so-called English colours.

A dyed red ceramic centre marble was a feature of the sets by JWSpear but Ive not seen them with other makers so your compliment of 32 marbles may be complete for this set.

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