marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 12 Report Share Posted May 12 Size 21/32" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Posted May 13 Report Share Posted May 13 Looks Asian/Imperial? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted May 13 Report Share Posted May 13 This one is a Vacor--maybe a "Dragonfly" Lets as @Mojo for an opinion here. Marble--On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 14 Author Report Share Posted May 14 I can't post the video or I would but its really loaded with sparkle. I'm gonna try to edit the video and shorten it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 14 Author Report Share Posted May 14 20250512_115038.mp4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 14 Author Report Share Posted May 14 Video with the Aventurine! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nickel Guy Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 All I see is an audio player bar and it sounds like Sesame Street Elmo and his favorite scientist? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 Its not as if excess colorant in glass is a rare or valuable thing. It can appear in most glass colors when there is undissolved colorant in the glass, or in the cullet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'llhavethat1 Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 Cool, video worked for me. I can see the sparkle. More often than not, it's incidental in marbles and some people collect examples based on eye appeal alone (similar to examples with incidental debris, oven brick, large bubbles, "UV POP"list goes on and on.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 14 Author Report Share Posted May 14 On that marble its only on that side of it. The other side doesn't have it. It really looks intentional. It looks just like the av on the zebra marble that I have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted May 14 Report Share Posted May 14 1 hour ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said: On that marble its only on that side of it. The other side doesn't have it. It really looks intentional. It looks just like the av on the zebra marble that I have. Vintage manufacturers didn't have a big barrel of "aventurine" that they chose to add rarely - or at all. Fun fact: "Aventurine" is a stone. A mineral. Quartz to be specific. There is no quartz in glass marbles. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted May 14 Author Report Share Posted May 14 4 hours ago, Alan said: Vintage manufacturers didn't have a big barrel of "aventurine" that they chose to add rarely - or at all. Fun fact: "Aventurine" is a stone. A mineral. Quartz to be specific. There is no quartz in glass marbles. Thank you for the information I wasnt sure exactly what AV was. I thought it was maybe crushed up glass or something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted May 15 Report Share Posted May 15 3 hours ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said: Thank you for the information I wasnt sure exactly what AV was. I thought it was maybe crushed up glass or something. In pretty much all cases - it is undissolved (or precipitated) colorant flakes in the glass. Those flakes reflect light in most cases. A company like Peltier intentionally used it to very good advantage to cause dense colorant in the glass for specific NLRs (Golden Rebel, Zebras etc). It was more expensive for them to use excess colorant in that way, which is probably why it was done so sparingly. Marbles had to be made ultra-cheaply. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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