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Steph

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I am a big fan of the underachievers. 
I always try to overachieve when sorting, if not, I would have never found these two. Finding ones like these in a lot always gets my desire to continue collecting flowing.
Here are two little Cleary’s (out of the wild). 
The first one  is just over ½” the other, the really nice blue one is 5/8-11/16”.
The little one has a ground pontil on both ends, no lutz, just bubbles.
The blue one has a melted pontil at both ends . This one is quite out of round but it has a color that is unreal and not replicated in any marble that I own—very pretty blue. Blue was and is a very expensive color of glass to produce, so I am not surprised to see that this one made the mark for sales.
(excuse the reflections of my backdrop. They are both flawless)
Search like you mean it and be rewarded!    
Marble—On!!
 

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It's Thursday so here's another board. Glevum Games boxed, pine board. very clear glass with bright colours. Rough ground pontils despite quite intricate Swirl design. I'm guessing very late period maybe early 20th C?

I highlighted my faves - 2 same cane single ribbons in black/yellow/white and their double ribbon sibling.

Unusually nearly all the mibs have some black glass which is very unusual.

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Another beautiful board to start the day. Thanks for showing it. The black, yellow and white ones do stand out in the group, and it's interesting that nearly all share some black color. It's a beautiful group of marbles!

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2 hours ago, Ric said:

Nice one, Chad - kind of "modern" (or is it "English") colors?

"Estimated" production date for this one somewhere between 1870-1910, EOD Josephs Coat, two unfinished pontils, no faceting : Yes, so called English colors as most of the colors are noticeably brighter than their faceted 1850-1870 predecessors. Called English because most of them manufactured during this time were made in Germany for the "English" game board market, as such the larger Coats for this time (end of the late Victorian era) have become very hard to come by, i.e., @ over or near 1".  Size is 1 & 3/16ths" 

                                                   A shot of the two unfinished pontils

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1 hour ago, Chad G. said:

"Estimated" production date for this one somewhere between 1870-1910, EOD Josephs Coat, two unfinished pontils, no faceting : Yes, so called English colors as most of the colors are noticeably brighter than their faceted 1850-1870 predecessors. Called English because most of them manufactured during this time were made in Germany for the "English" game board market, as such the larger Coats for this time (end of the late Victorian era) have become very hard to come by, i.e., @ over or near 1".  Size is 1 & 3/16ths"

It's a nice one, Chad! Thanks for the info too!

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These are the only "clay type" ones I really saved,  guessing the Black Bennington would be the hardest to acquire then maybe the Jaspar in the back ?? Not all that knowledgeable on them  they just came in lots !! I have some glazed painted helix and  bullseye Chinas "somewhere" 

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2 minutes ago, akroorka said:

I cannot say that I have ever seen a black bennie before. The three color bennies are a hard find.

The big Jasper colored one is quite cool as well.

Marble--On!!

I have actually looked for a "pink" Bennie but the few I ran into were beat up !!

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On 2/10/2022 at 5:26 PM, Tommy said:

I have this 3/4 in clambroth . I am glad to have this one in this condition. They seem super fragile...enjoy. probably my favorite handmade in my collection. 

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Nice mib Tommy, great size !!  Gentle now, watch or unbenounced to you "flaking"

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The only full set I ever owned, a set of solid cores I had some years ago. All mibs are 11/16ths or better w/ many same cane. I believe the mibs were all original to the set for the fact of all the same canes present, but no real way to tell.

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                                                        A few of my favorite colored cores

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1 hour ago, crashbelt said:

Here is a Chad Valley set. Boxed, cheap looking 2 tone board - probably painted/stained plywood. Ground pontil mibs. Looks very late period to me, perhaps early 20th Century.

The stars are the lovely simple 'English' colour swirls, especially the single colour solid cores.

 

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Love them solid cores David !!

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