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Marble

Place of OriginUnited States or Germany

Date1870-1900

Dimensions1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.532

Not on View

DescriptionSolid, tooled. Encloses a spiral of white canes overlaid with colorless glass surrounded by a spiral of ten canes of blue, red, green, yellow, and white glass. Ground and semipolished where cracked from pontil rod. Greenish tinge.

Published ReferencesSlusser, Esther, "Swirl and Sulphide Marbles," Spinning Wheel, vol. 21, no. 6, June 1965, pp. 10-11, figs. at top of each page (reprinted from Bulletin of the Paperweight Collectors Association, June 1961).

Miller, Roger C., "Swirl and Sulphide Playing Marbles," Spinning Wheel, vol. 22, no. 11, November 1966, pp. 20-21 (describes Lauscha, Germany, method of handmaking glass marbles).

Cloak, Evelyn Campbell, Glass Paperweights of the Bergstrom Art Center, New York, Crown, 1969, pp. 162, 163, pl. 59, no. 613 (very similar marbles).

Laing, Trudy, "Don't Lose Your Marbles--They May Be Collector's Items," Glass, vol. 1, no. 1, November-December 1972, pp. 6-7.

Randall, Mark E., and Dennis Webb, Greenberg's Guide to Marbles, Sykesville, Md., Greenberg, 1989.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 566, no. 951.