Peltier Marble Seams

I finally found the second true seam and got that photo.

Peltier marble seams.

The earliest peltier marbles are single stream. Peltier slags are single stream marbles as are the slags of other companies. They are a transparent colored base glass with opaque white swirled. The top left marble was so busy that it almost looked like it had three seams but that s a different subject.

Their most desirable national line rainbo series consists of colorful styles each appropriately nicknamed after their appearance such as superboy flaming dragon zebra golden rebel and many more. Christensen slags are identifiable by their seams. They have a single seam are characterized by nice bright colors and have a distinctive swirl pattern. The twelve characters in ascending order of rarity are emma koko bimbo smitty andy herbie skeezix annie sandy betty moon and kayo.

However some of their marbles such as the national line rainbos see below are extremely rare in peewee under 1 2 or shooter over 3 4 sizes. These are peltier peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different king syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. Also one of the seams looks. The white swirls occur on the surface of the marble as well inside it.

Peltier marble sizes seem to be more variable than those of most other companies and they produced many peewee marbles in diminutive sizes for the most part not seen from other major manufacturers. First made in the 1920 s and continued into the early 30 s. They are usually referred to as miller marbles because they were produced using peltier s first marble machine designed by an employee named miller. They may have two or they may have only one.

Peltier produced single stream slags and swirls. Hi steph and marble connection people heres some pics of a marble that i think is a peltier but was thinking that i might be a jabo because it was bigger than most of my peltiers 66 and the marble was in too great a shape to find in an antique store for a dollar. Peltier marbles are treasured by many marble collectors for their colorful variety and complex beauty. The top left one is a national line rainbo aka nlr from around 1930 give or take a couple of years.

Both the peltier marble company and the christensen marble company tried to produce a marble in an effort to compete with japanese cat s eyes and both company first effort were a failure. Peltier s was the clear national lined rainbow marble and christensen s was the what we call today as the christensen cobra. Usually there is an overglaze of clear glass.