Fire1981 Posted December 4 Report Share Posted December 4 Under 30X loupe it’s not kiln brick or Space Junk. There are some bubbles in there. But it’s mica. If not ? What do you think is in the Matrix 🔥 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted December 4 Author Report Share Posted December 4 Is there an ID attached to this one🔥 RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted December 4 Report Share Posted December 4 No name, I am not going to disagree that this one is a Master Made Marble—nice bigger one. “Mica” the term is reserved for antique ( or newer) handmade marbles imh-experience. Aventurine has been reserved for “Machine Made” Marbles as far as I know. This one shows what looks like “Mica”—just unresolved or uncooked recipe glass. Pretty rare for Master Glass Made Marbles imho—they cooked their glass pretty long looking to match the hand-made’s of that era. I just love this stuff—really—nice marble Fire! Marble—On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaMarbles Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 Could be a master snow globe? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 Snow Globe is right. Mica is a rock that was used in handmade marbles and a very small number of experimental newer machine mades. This is probably undissolved potash or something like that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted December 5 Author Report Share Posted December 5 Thanks everyone. All I knew was that those weren't bubbles in the Matrix.🔥 RAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 Thats oven brick particles. It can't be batch, because vintage makers didn't use batch. Mica looks quite different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 Who claims that vintage makers didn't use batch glass? While it could be oven brick, I have seen these with translucent speckles just like this, and oven brick would be totally opaque. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 33 minutes ago, cheese said: Who claims that vintage makers didn't use batch glass? While it could be oven brick, I have seen these with translucent speckles just like this, and oven brick would be totally opaque. I'm referring to commercial batch product. Like Spruce Pine. If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I'm ready to learn. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted December 5 Report Share Posted December 5 18 hours ago, cheese said: Who claims that vintage makers didn't use batch glass? Of course they did--no argument here. I am glad to see the edit here Marble--On Cheese 17 hours ago, Alan said: I'm referring to commercial batch product. Commercial, in the earlier days did make their own glass--they had to. I am am glad to see that you edited as well Alan. I just love this stuff and I like to see that we can backoff and accept each others opinions. Marble--On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheese Posted December 6 Report Share Posted December 6 Sure Art, there's nothing for me to back off of, I wasn't on the offense. I was just thrown off track by the comment and wondering what I was missing, knowing that Alan knows about batch glass and all. There was no confrontational attitude meant to be conveyed in my reply, just a genuine question. My reply isn't edited unless I came back to add the part about the translucent/opaque qualities right after I submitted my reply, and Alan's looks the same as when I first saw it too. I'm confused I guess, not sure what happened here. Whatever it was, I was just wondering what information Alan had because I had conflicting information. These forums are text only, and text can be read a lot of different ways. Hopefully everyone knows me enough by now to know that while I may be frank sometimes, I'm not one to jump in confrontationally. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted December 6 Report Share Posted December 6 Thanks Cheese. Marble--On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted December 7 Author Report Share Posted December 7 I know what kiln brick and other Space Junk looks like under 30X loupe. This is something else. Not mica but this stuff does have the silver reflective properties of mica. 🔥 RAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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