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Title: I've polished my marble
Post by: Tigerchips on February 11, 2009, 08:46:36 PM

Well not me personally but somebody has!

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

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Frank on February 12, 2009, 12:25:12 AM

To stop it from rolling away. :huh: ::)

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

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Chris Harrison on February 12, 2009, 12:56:44 AM

As a stand for something else?

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Tigerchips on February 12, 2009, 09:26:43 AM

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.  ;D

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

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: lhazeldahl on February 12, 2009, 09:37:43 AM

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

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Tigerchips on February 12, 2009, 10:00:32 AM

Cheers.  :)

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Bernard C on February 12, 2009, 11:10:34 AM

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.  ;D

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Chris Harrison on February 12, 2009, 01:15:20 PM

Yeah, *that's* what I meant!  :chky:

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Tigerchips on February 12, 2009, 06:23:17 PM

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.  ;D

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: johnphilip on February 12, 2009, 06:59:07 PM

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

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: lhazeldahl on February 13, 2009, 02:04:15 AM

Sweetie, if I had a marble, I'd ,for sure, be polishing it!

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Bernard C on February 13, 2009, 02:15:33 AM

OR — TC, that means another possibility from the purveyor of improbabilities:-

Strange & Rare p27 item 85 — cupped spherical bowl with flared rim mounted on a base of four balls arranged as a triangular pyramid.   Dated rather unhelpfully 19th/20th Century.

I saw one of these at a glass fair about five years ago as I was walking past a stand thinking about something completely different.   So I braked, came to a halt, went into reverse, and arrived back in time to see another dealer handing over cash for it.   And it was so cheap it still hurts.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Bernard C on February 22, 2009, 03:59:12 AM

TC — It's not the Webb centrepiece foot, as these are squashed, the shape of curling stones.   So the illustration in The Glass Circle's Strange & Rare is all I can suggest.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: I've polished my marble
Post by: Tigerchips on March 01, 2009, 05:42:44 PM

Okay, thanks.