Left & Right handed swirl

[SequoiaBET]

Here is an interesting one. It is a single pontil and from the top has a left hand swirl and from the bottom has a right hand swirl. The 2 merge together at the equator. The yellow glass also forms a partial core inside the marble. Any ideas on who, what, when, where it was made?

[akroorka]

56 minutes ago, SequoiaBET said:

Here is an interesting one.

I agree, quite interesting.

Your images are a bit dark here.

The last image does no good.

Size is important as well.

Take it out into the sunlight and give us some better/clearer images.

I believe that you may have a CAC here--just not convinced yet.

Marble--On!!

[GreyMaus]

I think I see a hand-gathered 9 and tail. 

[I'llhavethat1]

Greiner hand gathered, Germany, approx 1850s.  Nice example

[Fire1981]

I think you just nailed it🔥

RAR

[SequoiaBET]

Thanks for the ID help folks. How rare are these marbles? I hadn't heard about them at all and had to do a web search to learn some about them, but even there there is not much info about them.

[I'llhavethat1]

Fairly hard to come by in the grand scheme of things.  Especially in decent shape since they're so darn old and the glass quality (and overall technology from that era) was sometimes questionable.  

Opaque yellow was one of the colors used, some collectors refer to it as egg yolk yellow.  

What's the size?  most of them were a little over 3/4".

[SequoiaBET]

Thanks for the info. It does have an egg yolk quality to the color. It is just under 3/4" (.73)