Marble Pontil Types

This would leave a rough patch called.

Marble pontil types. Feel the pontil mark and determine how rough it is. This leaves a tiny rough patch on the marble which is known as the. Once the glob would shape into its desired size the maker would cut the marble off the pipe. Regular ground melted pinpoint fold pinch and crease.

Here are some ways to determine if a marble is vintage or not. Some bottles exhibit what appears to be two types of pontil scars at once. Feel the pontil mark and determine how rough it is. Round pontil marks with a slightly rough texture that are still fairly smooth indicate what is known as a ground pontil mark according to akron marbles.

After the marble was made the creator ground the pontil mark down to create the slightly rough yet flat mark on the bottom. After the marble was made the creator ground the pontil mark down to create the slightly rough yet flat mark on the bottom. The first three are handmade marbles the last three are machine made marbles. One other type of.

During this procedure a stick is used where the marble is attached. Pontil marks are rounder and do not follow a pattern. This type is fairly rare. The glassblowing technique was instrumental in the making of marbles in the earlier days.

60 different bidders on the phone live and online competed to be the proud owner of. Once done the stick is broken on its end. Each section includes information on the processes that produced the scar alternative naming and pictured examples. Most vintage marbles were made by hand through the process called glassblowing.

Blowpipe pontil scar sand pontil scar and bare iron pontil scar. Regular pontil transitionals have a pontil on one end that looks just like the pontil on a handmade marble. There are six basic types of pontil. In this technique the glassmaker would blow into a round mass of molten glass attached to the end of a blowpipe.

Look for the pontil. Two inches and larger and one half inch or less are sizes that may make an ordinary marble a rare one. These are harder to find than regular paperweight marbles and in fact are among the most valuable of all hand made marbles. Millefiori marbles are a type of paperweight marble in which instead of having flecks of glass there will be a layer of millefiori canes.

These are covered in the combination pontilsection. Bennington pottery marbles are brown or blue or a combination of brown and blue and are common in small sizes.