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Marbles Beyond Glass
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Price Last Updated : 5-18-2012
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Features
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Ltd; 1 edition March 20, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764323636
ISBN-13: 978-0764323638
Product Dimensions:
11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
Reader Reviews
Collecting the full spectrum of non-glass marbles is collecting the history of toy marbles. It should have been impossible to produce a book on non-glass marbles without mentioning details of their history and production, but this has now been accomplished, unfortunately. The hundreds of individual marble pictures vary greatly in interest. Many are redundant and the inferior pictures detract from the few excellent examples illustrated. Antique agate marbles are interspersed with modern mineral marbles.There is very little or nothing mentioned of wooden, hollow brass, limestone, alabaster, stoneware, sewer-tile or ivory toy marbles. Any ceramic marble coated with a colored glaze is called a "bennington", which is not helpful. There is no mention of the largest US agate marble factory which cut and ground Mexican onyx in the 1920s and 1930 in Los Angeles, California. No contemporary marble makers are named, although their marbles are illustrated profusely. No distinction is made between earthen ware, red ware, stone ware (very old German as well as 100 year old Akron), yellow ware (generally from the US) white ware or porcelain (usually German). Any marble with surface lines is arbitrarily called "line pottery" or "line crockery" or "lined china". Unfortunately, since rarity does not greatly influence price (value) amongst many ordinary ceramic toy marbles, it appears there was no incentive for the author to accurately categorize them. I'm not looking for a treatise on ceramics, but at a list price of $50, some attempt should have been made to progress from the folksy and sloppy jargon of the past to well established classification used by ceramic collectors. Such impaired communication inhibits progress; ceramic marble collectors will have to wait for a better book, which is long overdue.
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Marbles Beyond Glass
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by Stanley A. Block
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on 5-18-2012
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