Peltier Marble Seams

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 marble seams.

Christensen slags are identifiable by their seams. Peltier slags are single stream marbles as are the slags of other companies. They have a single seam are characterized by nice bright colors and have a distinctive swirl pattern. First made in the 1920 s and continued into the early 30 s.

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. The twelve characters in ascending order of rarity are emma koko bimbo smitty andy herbie skeezix annie sandy betty moon and kayo. These are peltier peerless patches with a black transfer of one of twelve different king syndicate comic characters fired on the marble surface. Early peltier marbles made on the miller machine.

I finally found the second true seam and got that photo. The top left one is a national line rainbo aka nlr from around 1930 give or take a couple of years. The white swirls occur on the surface of the marble as well inside it. 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.

They are usually referred to as miller marbles because they were produced using peltier s first marble machine designed by an employee named miller. Peltier produced single stream slags and swirls. 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. They may have two or they may have only one.

Also one of the seams looks. The earliest peltier marbles are single stream. Usually there is an overglaze of clear glass. They can be differentiated from peltier slags because they do not have the fine feathering of the white glass that the latter possess.

Their ribbons and seams are easily recognized. They are a transparent colored base glass with opaque white swirled. Peltier s was the clear national lined rainbow marble and christensen s was the what we call today as the christensen cobra.