What do I have here?

[mtnhop]

Going back and forth with others trying to place this one. 13/16" dia. Transparent purple base. 

[akroorka]

This one is a hand-gathered marble, an older one.

The colors are not deep enough for me to call it USA made.

I appreciate all opinions and hope to see some more.

@YasudaCollector may have an opinion here as well as @Ric.

@Mojo knows these very well.

Marble--On!!

[mtnhop]

With the lack of a pontil, others are saying MFC.

[Tommy]

F.w.i.w it looks Japanese .

[akroorka]

20 hours ago, mtnhop said:

others are saying MFC.

This is just not a MFC imho.

We need some more opinions here.

@Ric?

Marble-On!!

[marblemanvintagemarbles]

I feel like its Japanese from the detail within the glass work

[mtnhop]

17 hours ago, akroorka said:

This is just not a MFC imho.

We need some more opinions here.

@Ric?

Marble-On!!

Been a hard one to get a consensus on id in other as well.

[YasudaCollector]

Based on the colors alone it looks pretty Japanese. 

[YasudaCollector]

I wonder what @shiroaiko would say. 

[Mojo]

No pontil so not a Grenier i would say 

Yashuda transitionals have also a greasy pontil 

Interesting one this is 

Too bad is damaged 🙄

Nice 9 , looks like a bird head 

Nice one 👍🏻

[shiroaiko]

If a transitional lacks a pontil and is still from Japan, Nakanishi could be a possible maker. He came from a samurai family in Osaka and also ran a large appliance and gas company—the biggest in the city at the time. In the marble field, he filed utility model patents in 1932 and 1933. The 1933 utility model 18246 describes a marble-making machine equipped with a burner to fire-polish a cut end of transitionals. He also made cut glassware. 

nakanishiJPY 1933018246.pdfnakanishiJPY 1933018246-.pdf

An advertisement for Nakanishi marbles appears in Industrial Nippon To-day, published in 1935. The production volume shown in that ad is larger than that of Isogami when he switched to machine-made marbles in 1939. Isogami had fully automated production with 14 workers, turning out 1.5 million marbles per month. The number in the ad suggests that Nakanishi may also have transitioned to machine-made production in 1935. 

I haven’t found an exact match for this topic so far.

[shiroaiko]

Below are screenshots of the Nakanishi patent; a marble machine with a burner. 

[mtnhop]

15 hours ago, shiroaiko said:

 

If a transitional lacks a pontil and is still from Japan, Nakanishi could be a possible maker. He came from a samurai family in Osaka and also ran a large appliance and gas company—the biggest in the city at the time. In the marble field, he filed utility model patents in 1932 and 1933. The 1933 utility model 18246 describes a marble-making machine equipped with a burner to fire-polish a cut end of transitionals. He also made cut glassware. 

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An advertisement for Nakanishi marbles appears in Industrial Nippon To-day, published in 1935. The production volume shown in that ad is larger than that of Isogami when he switched to machine-made marbles in 1939. Isogami had fully automated production with 14 workers, turning out 1.5 million marbles per month. The number in the ad suggests that Nakanishi may also have transitioned to machine-made production in 1935. 

I haven’t found an exact match for this topic so far.

Thank you for that, very interesting. From appearance would you think this is actually Japanese? 

[shiroaiko]

@mtnhop  The more I look into the marble, the more it looks Japanese to me.