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DESCRIPTION: Purple, i.e., lavender and lilac, swirls decorate a robin's-egg blue base glass, making what collectors now know as the Alley Agate BLUE LADY.
I don't quite remember when, but once upon a time, a collector called me to account for listing this marble as a Christensen Agate marble. "It was made by the Alley Agate Company while they were located at Pennsboro, West Virginia," the collector told me. Stubbornly, I dismissed the obviously inexperienced collector as not knowing his marbles. In recent years, to my chagrin, research has repudiated the belief of us older collectors that CAC made this marble. It is now established that the Alley Agate Company did make it during their sojourn in Pennsboro, West Virginia, around 1933. I don't know who the collector was who first told me, but I offer him my apologies. CONDITION: NEAR MINT(-) The surface has a glossy wet shine, but there are pinpricks here and there, and just above the center of the sixth picture, you can see a circular flake that may be a pull-up mark formed when two hot marbles touched and pulled apart on their way to the rollers just before they cooled. You may click here to view the grading system I use. Size 16.43mm or 0.647" at the equator. | |||||
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