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Marbles found in an Estate sale in Boonville

Market

From the Allameny Flea today, including mint condition wool blanket, Bankcal coin bag, white and red glass marbles, beautiful blue porcelain marble from 1830 unearthed during renovations for the Atlanta Olympics, and a chunk of Celestite for NMc.

Happy Earth Day, and Night

Springing

Springing into action with the turning of the garden. With the compost pile like a mountain, and the home archeology exposing glass eyeballs, looks like we're in for a good year.

Out of Round

Hand made striker marble, more in the shape of an egg, the small rough mark from the punty still visible. Recently found at the Ark.

The House Red

Recently acquired in house reds including Japanese Batik courtesy of VM and TN, new oxblood striker marble picked up at The Ark, vintage Eastern European(?) hemp ribbon ( my family is crazy for ribbon, sometimes  more than the gift itself, often ironing and pressing before storing for the next year when it most likely will go back to another family member. I have seen some ribbon passed back and forth for years.) Also on the list of reds, NMc's hand made heart lavender infused weights/ eye pillows, and finally the return of VM's repaired hand knit red hemp pillow.

Emile Norman 1918-2009

Los Angeles Times Article HERE, and website HERE. Great PBS Documentary HERE.

Terrarium

Inspired by South Willard and Ellen Kenney Terrariums, we have created our own.

Guillaume Delvigne

French Designer Guillaume Delvigne

website HERE

Recently acquired vintage Jabo Marbles. The quest for purple continues....

Muuto

Scandinavian Design Company Muuto. HERE

Home Archeology

Every so often we uncover some new shards of ceramic and glass in our garden. Yesterday, it appears as though we have found a match (see figure 2). It seems as though the match is from the Roxbury Semi-Porcelain factory in England, also showing a stamp of Ridgeway. It could date back to the mid 19th century. Our place was built in the early 1900's, so perhaps we are on to something. More to come as the research continues.

Public Glass, San Francisco

Just found these old images from a project I did with Public Glass in San Francisco, back in 2002. More on Public Glass HERE

Maxim Velcovsky

Maxim Velcovsky for Viennese glass maker Lobmeyr. From DESIGNBOOM

Another all-in-one Unit

Beautiful all-in-one  project by glass designer Katherine Gray. MORE HERE

Seeing Red

In House Mini Trifle Cups produced in France.

Marble

My favorite hand-blown glass marble.