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DESCRIPTION: At less than 1/2", this old-timer qualifies as a true PeeWee. The pattern shows it to be, what collectors call, a Bull's Eye. It's hard to tell whether orange or red, but the marble has been dyed. The center of the Bull's Eye shows an impurity that looks like a metallic substance, possibly lead. There are rather jagged edges of the light reflections shown in the pictures, especially in the 800 square pixel image you can view by pressing, or clicking, the first image.
Although I've never actually seen the making of a machine ground marble, it isn't too hard to imagine; but it is very hard to get my mind around a person grinding a piece of agate stone to a sphere so nearly perfectly round and smooth, magnification is necessary to see the almost invisible facets left by the procedure. To apply that operation to a marble less than a half-inch in diameter is phenomenal. CONDITION: NEAR MINTThe surface has a high shine, but there are almost microscopic pinholes, not pinpricks, on the surface. Those could probably be natural features of the agate stone, but the dirt or whatever it is now residing in them is not so near mint. You may click here to view the grading system I use. Size 12.32mm or 0.486" at the equator. | |||||
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