Fire1981 Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 It’s 3/4 and here’s what had been attached to this one. It’s late Pelt slag from a Pelt dig. I got it in 2003 and just now found it. So what do you think 🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted January 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 I got it with this piece of cullet. 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 Hmmm, the marble is a pelt slag--no doubt. I do not think that the cullet matches--but it does look like it came from Ottawa. Nice stuff Fire! Marble—On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wvrons Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 What is a late Pelt slag ? I agree the cullet is backwards of the marble. It was white base with blue added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagocyclist Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 Do I understand correctly that the marble came straight from a dig? If I am reading it correctly, it looks like it has a lot of play damage, which I don't know how it would get in the ground...? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff54 Posted January 12, 2023 Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 I'd have to agree with that assessment. I have 100's and 100's of factory dug-up marbles and although some have surface scratches and a few knicks, this slag is the most beat up, moons, chips wear and tear of any I've seen. However who's to say it wasn't run over by a fork lift, rolling around the floor for who knows how long. I would only accept something like it if it has provenance I could rely on. As for Peltier, it is a possibility for that near triangular pattern in the 9. How or why a hand gathered marble could have any triangular 9 in repetition defies my imagination, but it's the only recognizing thing that some Pelt slags may have. Yet, that culet does not have the same colors. Blue, white and black: my memory fails me; I can't recall a Peltier that's striped (multiple streams produced with a gob feeder) with only those colors that was not blended coloring like a blue Zebra. If the black has aventurine, it would seal the deal, something with Pelt's ribbons/stripes and pattern, I don't know about or recall, exists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted January 12, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2023 I wasn’t implying the cullet was the same as the slag. I was just part of the auction 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted January 13, 2023 Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 As for the pattern, I think it may just be a wholly machine-made marble that got spun in the process and that it is probably not hand-gathered. Sorta like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted January 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2023 The “Seller” stated that the Pelt stuff I got came from a farm south of Ottawa. Farmers came and just loaded up P-U trucks with stuff from the Pelt site at the end. As I said. Fact or fiction 🔥 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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