Iain P Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Hi all again. After discovering my "first" marble by accident at the car boot sale last week, and getting help and encouragement here on the forum, I got hooked, and went back this week hunting for marbles, and got a small jar full for just £1. There's about 20 all together, 5 of which even I recognise as "normal" ones, and not worth showcasing here, but the rest are quite interesting, to me anyway, and I'd love some help IDing them and getting some idea of their age, origin, etc. I've grouped them into what I think are different types, so here goes with the first 6. They are all around 3/4" diameter, though they are surprisingly irregular in shape: I'm going to guess they are banded swirls? And the pontil marks confirm them as handmade, so they are quite old? One side of most of them have these very rough marks. I don't know if this is due to damage or how they were made. Here's a particularly rough one: Most have an obvious single raised line on them, where they were cut off after being formed, I assume. Some have elongated air bubbles in them. I don't know if this is normal or not: And this one has a huge bubble all the way though the centre line: They look super in the sunlight anyway. And my wife was "delighted" to find me using her antique silver sugar tongs. This one shows the "non-rough" top of the marble, and also an odd line running through the centre, which only appears on this one marble, making me think it's an artefact of production rather than by design: Thanks for looking; more to follow soon. Iain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dannyboy Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 The rough marks are where they were cut off the cane and known as pontils. This type of German handmade marble is known as "Mist". Late 1800's to early 1900's. thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Iain P said: Some have elongated air bubbles in them. I don't know if this is normal or not: This is a good sign that they were melted, stretched, pulled, cut and made from a cane of glass. Marble--On!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad G. Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 x3, All cane cut German Handmades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greeneyesgreenthumbs Posted July 11, 2022 Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 From what I can tell they are all Naked Core German Hand Made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain P Posted July 11, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2022 Thanks all! I'm very pleased to have some "proper" antique marbles. Will show the others here tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Pelts🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Coreless swirls , maybe even a Josephcoat between them 💪 German handmades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted July 12, 2022 Report Share Posted July 12, 2022 Handmade coreless swirls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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