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UKM
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject: Machine made ID....???? |
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Hi everyone. Here are two machine mades that a friend of mine asked for help with.... But as I am not a machine made collector I could not help. Hopefully someone can. UKM
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that1
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| Look like pieces of glass cullet ground to spheres based on those pics. "Machine made" by a sphere grinder type-thing. |
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lstmmrbls
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Thats what I see also. Peace,Galen
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.......................and me. 
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browse4antiques
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| Is it the disconnected circles in the striping pattern that suggests ground cullet? ... Roger |
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they looked that way to me too, at first. but i'm not convinced that a cullet marble would have a spherical pattern.
my guess is that they are just heavily polished corkscrews.
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lstmmrbls
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Yes, guessing that the patterns are circular around the marbles, not spiraling like a corkscrew. Peace,Galen
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tankgrrl29
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funny what the mind can do to a picture...
is the blue transparent inside? or is that black?
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Ponkochan
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| lstmmrbls wrote: | | Yes, guessing that the patterns are circular around the marbles, not spiraling like a corkscrew. Peace,Galen |
That's what my mind saw too.
More pics showing (what I call) the poles might give me a different impression.
I was thinking similar to this type.
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| If they are spherical patterns like they appear, I'd stick with my cullet guess. Different stacks/layers of flat glass in cullet would make this pattern, layers like you'd see naturally on some ground agates referred to as "bullseye" pattern. |
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