u/SeriousPigeon

What are these sort of loose core cat eyes?

What are these sort of loose core cat eyes?

I have over time acquired quite a few of these, all found in heavily veiligglas flea market finds, usually with a lot of European sparklers as well. They look sort of like a cats eye where the color core separates out instead of connecting in. All bought in Germany so unlikely to be US manufactured ones. No pontils.

u/SeriousPigeon — 12 days ago

Trying to learn how to identify based on seams/poles

As you can see I have a side views, a seam view, and big seam view. Top right shows a long seam. Bottom shows a gathered pole. I am staring at guides, then at the marble, and I just cannot figure it out. Is this an Akro maybe?

u/SeriousPigeon — 18 days ago

More random flea market finds!

These are some real pretty marbles, no measurements on them, but they are small to normal marble sizes, not toe breakers like my last post. These were found in a box with probably 100 veilig glas marbles.

Photos 1-3 are of "the eyeball". Translucent blue core with white opaque that looks like, well, an eyeball. I did a lot of googling, I cannot find anything that looks like this weirdo. No pontils on these.

4-7 are a red white and blue number. I think this might be a french sparkler, I have probably 50 or so in a large variety of colors like this. the center colors are not gathered like cats eyes. No pontils on these.

8-10 are a gorgeous corn blue marble that I struggle to photograph well. Has a translucent quality to all aspects. Does have a C shaped pontil. Slightly damaged but that just makes it a keeper for me.

Working on a light set up where you do not see the reflection of my cheap Ikea ring light, and finding some clear washers instead of red for holding them in place. Also getting some dedicated calipers instead of asking my partner to come caliper them while I jot down silly notes to try and remember which measurement belongs to which mystery marble.

This is the point where I should reveal I bought roughly 300 marbles for 50 euros in an very dirty 1950s child suitcase at a flea market, so you can expect a lot more posting in the future.

u/SeriousPigeon — 1 month ago

Help Identifying this Flea Market find?

Found this huge 43.10 mm (1.6") marble at a German flea market. It has an opaque white base, red and yellow swirls, and a thin green stripe. There is more green in the large white section but it's hard to photograph.

Found mixed in with Vacor marbles, moderns, and some other oddities I haven't ID'd yet.

I don't think it's a Peltier, because one, I'm in Germany, and two, I cannot seem to find a seam. However, I have never tried to identify American marbles so to be honest, I'm not too sure what I am looking at.

Working on a better photo setup, but hey, at least the shots are in focus.

u/SeriousPigeon — 1 month ago