"Duncan Gray" <dun### [at] eclipsecouk> wrote in message
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> Any idea how they make them ? Glass marbles that is, not ceramic.

http://www.marblemuseum.org/articles/ribboncore.html  about marble making

and

http://www.marblealan.com/reprohand/  which tells of the Atlanta Porcelain
marbles.  Apparently they aren't genuine "marbles".  :-(  Disappointing but
I hardly paid anything for them.  Another place tells of many other such
fakes in the marble collecting realm.  I should have known  :-)  Well, these
I have just might be some kind of old porcelain anyway, painted over, from
some mill I read at one place.  They have cracks and look old.  Seems an
elaborate way to get 50 cents a piece.  Guess I should have checked up on it
at the time but it was soon after the Olympics that I bought these at a
antiques store.

Bob H.

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