green and white swirl wv .60

[Jeremysvt]

[akroorka]

This one was not made the way that it was intended to be made imho.

It could be one of many different makers.

Marble--On!!

[wvrons]

Cairo Novelty. A big C on about half the marble. Even the white side has the short glass stream sign. The C with the ? in the center and pinched together. Cairos has the big C or S pattern on about half of the marble. Lots of times they can be confused with Jabo. Cairo Novelty, a few Heatons. very late St.Marys Alleys and Jabo classics. All were short length glass stream from the furnace orifice outlet to the shear. The hot gob does not have time to twist around and around. So the striping color folds around over on itself in a C or S as it hits and piles on the shear plate, as the first cut is made . The shear blade then pushes back across and makes the second tighter pinch or more closed C on the opposite side. The flat shear blade is working fast back and forth horizontal between two thick hallow blocks of steel. Hallow for water flow to keep the steel shear blocks cool. The blade makes two cuts going across and also coming back . Each pass of the shear blade across or through the shear blocks, makes two marbles. Each marble with two cuts , one the bottom of marble and one the top of the marble. Watch one of several videos on You Tube of making machine made marbles. You will see the shear block and shear blade working back and forth cutting the hot glass glob. Then each glob, one to the left and one to the right falls down a chute to the marble machine rolls. Where the machine rounds the hot glob in the first three or four roll groves and the rest of the rolls length are for cooling. 

Shear blade

Cairo marbles  below. 

Not all 100% like these but most are this pattern.  

                          

 

[Jeremysvt]

1 hour ago, wvrons said:

Cairo Novelty. A big C on about half the marble. Even the white side has the short glass stream sign. The C with the ? in the center and pinched together. Cairos has the big C or S pattern on about half of the marble. Lots of times they can be confused with Jabo. Cairo Novelty, a few Heatons. very late St.Marys Alleys and Jabo classics. All were short length glass stream from the furnace orifice outlet to the shear. The hot gob does not have time to twist around and around. So the striping color folds around over on itself in a C or S as it hits and piles on the shear plate, as the first cut is made . The shear blade then pushes back across and makes the second tighter pinch or more closed C on the opposite side. The flat shear blade is working fast back and forth horizontal between two thick hallow blocks of steel. Hallow for water flow to keep the steel shear blocks cool. The blade makes two cuts going across and also coming back . Each pass of the shear blade across or through the shear blocks, makes two marbles. Each marble with two cuts , one the bottom of marble and one the top of the marble. Watch one of several videos on You Tube of making machine made marbles. You will see the shear block and shear blade working back and forth cutting the hot glass glob. Then each glob, one to the left and one to the right falls down a chute to the marble machine rolls. Where the machine rounds the hot glob in the first three or four roll groves and the rest of the rolls length are for cooling. 

Shear blade

Cairo marbles  below. 

Not all 100% like these but most are this pattern.  

                          

 

amazing!  thank you!

[Carowill]

Ron, you are a marble “treasure” with your compendium of knowledge!  Thanks for being such a selfless resource!

[wvrons]

Thank you ! 

The people who shared with me would take nothing in return. The only thing any of them ask of me.  Was that I pass the information forward. Most of them are gone now, a long list.  But their information is still on the move. They all were so amazed that anyone cared at all or had any interest in what they did years ago making toy marbles.