Marvelous Mibs Marbles Collectors Zone

lstmmrbls · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 696

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RunnersDad · Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 194 Location: Saint Louis, MO

Wow, you did quite well! For roughly a 170 dollars give or take!
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"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"-Steve Prefontaine

orbboy · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 217 Location: Ontario, Canada

Seem like times are real tough in the UK right now. I'm told there are twice as many car boot and auction sales going on. Everything including the kitchen sink is being flogged by people who need some cash at the moment. Good for the dealers who can afford to buy right now though.
I remember more than a couple of times when I was a kid having to literally squeeze down a skinny row to get from room to room at my house. A pretty good size farm house at that. I know my Mum is happy that Dad has gotten old and no longer really cares about furniture and the big stuff anymore. Now all she has to deal with is piles of canes and cane handles (my dads passion) all over the place. As well as anything Mersham.

Is the top one in this pic a Cloud? or a Clown? or is there a better name that would apply?

browse4antiques · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 552

I don't know about the use of the term "clown" for onionskins. I have never heard any sort of reasonable definition. Neither of these are "cloud" marbles. However, they are both unusual and desireable types. The top one appears to be constructed with opaque surface colours, which is quite unusual. Almost all the ground-pontil era onionskins are made with transparent outer layer glass. In fact, ground-pontil marbles that have any opaque other than white and yellow are quite rare. Whenever they do, it usually includes that rusty red and that bright blue. In the later era of handmades, with 2 rough pontils, opaque colours are more usual, and found on some onionskins, but mostly they just left out the base and hence the joseph coat. The second one has a base that is part white and part yellow. Usually the white/yellow base will be in opposing panels, with a different transparent surface colour on each panel. In the case of this marble, the base is half and half, with two transparent surface colours on each half. That construction is, in my opinion, more rare. Please let me know if you have a price in mind for them. ... Roger