Topic: I've polished my marble

[Tigerchips]

Well not me personally but somebody has!

Can somebody please put me out of my misery and explain why somebody would polish a marble?

[Frank]

To stop it from rolling away. :huh:

Is it polished on two sides? Probably not a marble then.

[Chris Harrison]

As a stand for something else?

[Tigerchips]

Yeah, it's polished on both sides and different sizes too. It was found in a box full of old glasses, decanters. The sort of glass that nobody wants to buy because it's all chipped and incomplete. 

It's a very small stand if it is, maybe for the worlds smallest paperweight!

[lhazeldahl]

Tigerchips,
A very lovely marble it is!  I know a collector, I'll send it on to him, he has soooo many!  I know he will want to see this.
Linda

[Tigerchips]

Cheers. 

[Bernard C]

TC — You put me off this topic by your reference to a marble.   I know nothing about marbles apart from collecting children's marble games.

Now, TC, you're going to have trouble believing this, and I don't know how you are going to establish whether I am joking or not!

Your marble isn't a marble, it's a foot.   Specifically, I'm reasonably sure it's one of the four feet off the oval mirror plateau base of the crescent-shaped centrepiece by Thomas Webb, Rd No 297634 of 14 January 1876.

Sort that one out, if you can!    :cheers:

Bernard C. 

[Chris Harrison]

Yeah, *that's* what I meant!  :chky:

[Tigerchips]

I think I believe you Bernard, thanks. I never would have guessed though.  :clap:

I just need the other three feet now and i'm probably less than halfway there. 

[johnphilip]

I believe someone has lost their marbles .  :huh:  Bernard what have i told you about polishing your marble .Mum   :angel: