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This is a really hard marble to describe. I could come up with all kinds of names for it, but let's see what develops: The first thing to strike your eye is the, almost unheard of in German handmades, transparent yellow glass and the quite large 1.0" size. As if that isn't wierd enough, the whole design of this marble is made up of fat lattice-like lines. They are too narrow to call bands or ribbons, but a bit fat for lattice; I'm going to refer to them all as littice lines.
At the center, forming a large core, there are sets of three cobalt blue and three dark green lines opposite each other and separated by two sets of red, one with three and one with two lines. When you try to view the resulting "web", it really doesn't come together as you would expect a latticinio to do. On the outside, just below the surface, are four sets of more lattice-like lines--best seen in the fifth and sixth pictures and do a better job of describing than any amount of words would do. One of the pontail marks is a melted pig-tail and the other is unfinished, which, along with the colors, design, and fat lattice lines, help us to date the marble to the late Victorian period, circa 1880-1910. This is a very striking and unique marble, the likes of which I've never seen. And the condition is remarkably clean. CONDITION: MINT(+) 9.8 This is probably as good as it gets with these antique German marbles. The surface is nearly perfectly clean, even the pontail marks. The entire marble looks like it just rolled of the line. If I didn't know better, I'd say it was brand new. You may click here to view the grading system I use. Size 25.87mm or 1.018" at the equator. | |||||
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