Steph Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Utterly fascinating look inside a polished onionskin. Wow times 50. (From an ebay auction.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Wow times 50. Well maybe not 50 but it's pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 I wonder why they all seem to have an inner core? ... That one seems to have a really NICE core, too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroy65 Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Sue, Not all onionskin's have inner cores. In fact only about a quarter of them do. I have seen them with double and triple cores. I hate to "pull" the ends that far down that it exposes the inner cores, but sometimes I don't have a choice if the customer insists that all damage be removed, or if the marble is hurt so badly that I have to remove a lot of glass to save it. I have learned over the years to leave small amounts of "clear" damage that doesn't detract from the beauty of a marble, rather than "pull" those ends down that far if the customer leaves the reconditioning up to me. ----Leroy----P.S.These are my own opinions from the many onionskins that I have handled. Please keep in mind that there are thousands and thousands if not millions of these types of marbles that I haven't seen. So to say that only about a quarter of them have inner cores is wrong on my part. But, it's true of the ones that I have handled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoop Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Wow, I didn't know that Leroy... I have seen the multiple cores, but if quized, I'd have guessed that most all of them have some sort of core, even if it's only a single white line... I still wonder why.... The only thing I can imagine, might be that they'd have taken a bunch of "ends" that still had some use, stuck 'em all together, then built a new cane on top of them?? Yeah, that one is pulled down pretty far.... But, if the outside was really trashed, the end result is kinda cool. Whenever I see one like that, I always hope that the need was great enough that it only left that option to keep it out of the aquarium (Where I used to toss my "well beyond any sort of help" marbles....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raynsandy Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Most onionskins are that way, either that or real bubbly crappy looking glass. If you look on the outside of a lot of old onions, youll see the glass isnt good crystal. They had good clean crystal back in the day. Its my opinion, marbles were made to use up the unwanted glass at the bottom- cleaning out the pot or right off of the top to use up the not so good stuff. End of canes, end of onion cane can all be found hidden in the cores of either solid cores or oinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99marbles131 Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 I'm wondering if it backlighting was part of the idea when layering these onionskins? Think about it, If you had a yellow based onion with a red core, when backlit it would be orange... wouldn't it? I only ask this because I find out more about my mibs when I back light them sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted August 31, 2011 Report Share Posted August 31, 2011 More than likely it was the glob of glass left on the punty from the previous marble that creates the inner core. No need to clean the punty and also save some glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmuehlba Posted September 1, 2011 Report Share Posted September 1, 2011 wow times 3 the second core is red and blue, the inner one is also red and blur and then a solid line of ?? . These are hard to decide on what to do with a junk marbles but in the end there very interesting and make all the tries worth it . Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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