TheVacorFan Posted yesterday at 08:21 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 08:21 PM Any contributions are appreciated. These are my examples below. 1st group size 5/8" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVacorFan Posted yesterday at 08:27 PM Author Report Share Posted yesterday at 08:27 PM 2nd group size around 7/8" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVacorFan Posted yesterday at 08:30 PM Author Report Share Posted yesterday at 08:30 PM 3rd group size around 1" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nickel Guy Posted yesterday at 09:25 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 09:25 PM Those are so neat. Thanks for posting. excuse me, I have to get a paper towel and clean the drool off the keyboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted yesterday at 10:13 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 10:13 PM Earlier today, in an opportune patch of sunlight, I grouped mine by colour. The clears group has 2 pictures as I was trying to show the back row better. These are all the ones (ranging from just over 9/16 to just under 3/4), that I'd attributed to veiligglas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted yesterday at 10:19 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 10:19 PM After some closer examination, this group is the ones that I know think may actually be Hopf. I'll try and do some close ups of individual marbles another day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago I think that it's quite important to note, that about half of my wirepull marbles came with the boxed Gibson solitaire board. I had sought this out after reading that veiligglas were the marbles that came with this particular board. I don't know what others can contribute to this, but I'm now pretty sure this information might actually be incorrect. I bought it on Ebay, and unfortunately don't have the original listing picture, however I do have a photo I took using it to display the wirepulls that I had at the time. When I purchased it, about 5 of the marbles had been replaced by cats. I used my existing marbles to restock it and displayed my spares around the game board. So I assume this picture must have approximately 25 of the original marbles that were supplied with the board. I hope this is useful information. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 23 hours ago Report Share Posted 23 hours ago It turns out these come up fairly regularly, in fact I just went on Ebay and spotted this one. Prices seem to vary, but for £10.60 including postage I couldn't resist. Ahem, it's for research purposes obviously 🙄, and I think it definitely looks like it's stocked with what we are now discussing as potentially Hopf marbles. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVacorFan Posted 16 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 16 hours ago 6 hours ago, LevvyPoole said: It turns out these come up fairly regularly, in fact I just went on Ebay and spotted this one. Prices seem to vary, but for £10.60 including postage I couldn't resist. Ahem, it's for research purposes obviously 🙄, and I think it definitely looks like it's stocked with what we are now discussing as potentially Hopf marbles. Only £10.60? Very nice score! So, you think they were made by Hopf but how do you distinguish them from Veiligglas? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVacorFan Posted 16 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 16 hours ago 8 hours ago, The Nickel Guy said: Those are so neat. Thanks for posting. excuse me, I have to get a paper towel and clean the drool off the keyboard. Thank you Yup, they're awesome. I've got some Opaques too, if you wanna see those, just let me know 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago 2 hours ago, TheVacorFan said: Only £10.60? Very nice score! So, you think they were made by Hopf but how do you distinguish them from Veiligglas? I was having the most difficulty separating the ones with blue and white lines. I had thought that the Hopf ones had a gap between and less crisp edges to these lines. On closer inspection of the photos on the other thread, I now think that all my blue and white ones may be Hopf. When sorting through all the different colours, I had started to notice @Ric description of the bubbles along the coloured lines. From here I started to spot the other similarities, and my "current" summary would be very clear base glass, more potential to be OOR and have very slight cold roll features. Also the presence of grains of something that can be seen, as mentioned on the other thread - I have one or two good examples of this. I'd also suggest that mine have low evidence of impact damage (maybe due to being solitaire marbles I suppose) and I don't think I've found any blow out holes yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago These are mine if this size that I am currently not attributing to Hopf. To be honest, I've never been sure that those maroon ones are Veiligglas, the grey one may be a WVS, the blue one might not be filled enough so that would actually just leave the green one... In larger sizes I have a few more which I do think are Veiligglas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago Probably the left and right yellows, the green and the blue could be confirmed as Veiligglas? I'm mainly assuming this by the way the lines are arranged. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago 6 hours ago, TheVacorFan said: Only £10.60? Very nice score! So, you think they were made by Hopf but how do you distinguish them from Veiligglas? And when this arrives, I'll make sure the marbles supplied stay with it, to try to eliminate further confusion... I'm sure that I've seen quite a lot of individual marbles for sale on Ebay labelled as Veiligglas, with close ups showing the sparkly bubbles, that we are beginning to realise might mean something else. I just want to add - anyone else with thoughts and opinions on this, please chime in. I am just putting mine out there for discussion. I do possibly think the production timings may align better for the Gibson solitaire board marbles being Hopf. I haven't spotted a definitive year of production for them, but from other info I think I remember it was stated they are from the 60s. If Veiligglas stopped making marbles in 61 and it was early to middle production years for Hopf, does this make more sense? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LevvyPoole Posted 25 minutes ago Report Share Posted 25 minutes ago @TheVacorFan just stumbled across this old thread on AAM. You might be interested to read through if you've not seen it before. https://www.allaboutmarbles.com/viewtopic.php?t=22893#p182029 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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