COVRSWAP Posted Monday at 05:16 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 05:16 PM Hey all, are these amber slags? New or old? 0.93 inch / 23.6mm in diameter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fire1981 Posted Monday at 06:27 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 06:27 PM Foreign Wire Pulls🔥 RAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COVRSWAP Posted Monday at 08:53 PM Author Report Share Posted Monday at 08:53 PM Thanks @Fire1981 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akroorka Posted Monday at 10:30 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 10:30 PM 5 hours ago, COVRSWAP said: Hey all, are these amber slags? New or old? 0.93 inch / 23.6mm in diameter. They would be considered as slags( amber--nice dark amber)-One base color--transparent amber and white included. I believe that these may be from the good ole UK. Nice marbles!! A great share--keep them coming. Marble--On!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COVRSWAP Posted yesterday at 05:37 AM Author Report Share Posted yesterday at 05:37 AM Thanks @akroorka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted 15 hours ago Report Share Posted 15 hours ago Very nice mibs even though they are foreign. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted 14 hours ago Report Share Posted 14 hours ago 46 minutes ago, marblemanvintagemarbles said: Very nice mibs even though they are foreign. "even though . . ."? I think they are very nice marbles, period. And my guess as to their origin would be the Netherlands, Japan or Germany, in that order. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted 14 hours ago Report Share Posted 14 hours ago @COVRSWAP The term "slag" is an old one. A slag is any marble that is composed of only a transparent clear or colored base glass and white striping glass. Your marbles certainly fit that definition. But some marbles that have the same composition are called "swirls", based primarily on the way the white is distributed in and on the base glass (please don't ask me to explain the differences, it's just something you sort of figure out, eventually. Maybe @akroorka will take a stab at it. 😁). I think many people, me included, would call your marbles swirls, and as @Fire1981 said, they might be wire pulls. Wire pulls are a particular type of swirl where there is only one continuous stream of striping glass. If you can only find two distinct ends on the white striping in your marbles, they are indeed wire pulls. Here is a fun exercise . . . Imagine that the amber base glass of your marbles is opaque white and the white striping glass is opaque red. The only red you would see is where the white is currently on the surface. Those marbles would be called swirls, with no possibility of being slags. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marblemanvintagemarbles Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago 35 minutes ago, Ric said: "even though . . ."? I think they are very nice marbles, period. And my guess as to their origin would be the Netherlands, Japan or Germany, in that order. I only insinuate that there isn't as many collectible foreign marbles as their are American marbles for machine mades that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COVRSWAP Posted 7 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 7 hours ago @Ric Many thanks for the detailed response. Mind blown 😂. Clearly a long learning journey ahead. Thanks for the advice and guidance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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