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Gloating!

Oct 13, 2007 11:21

My latest AoS purchase.... Marbles! *inserts Aubreyesque pun about having lost them ( Read more... )

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sharpiefan October 13 2007, 18:55:16 UTC

Those are amazing - they remind a little of photos I've seen of Roman or Egyptian marbles, made of clay... One of them (bottom right) looks a little like a musket ball...

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snakey October 13 2007, 20:08:50 UTC

Some of them are made of clay; others are (obv.) marble & other stones. They really do look like little musket balls, some of them - or little cannon balls, all chipped and in need of smoothing out... :D

grace_poppy October 13 2007, 23:34:19 UTC

There was that one cannon from The Ionian Mission, I think, where the did use marble cannon balls!

snakey October 14 2007, 08:18:51 UTC

Hee, I'd forgotten that!

*examines own marbles* I think some of these may be compacted stone dust of some kind.....

grace_poppy October 15 2007, 05:28:59 UTC

Interesting. I wonder how they did that back then. There would have to be a binder. Maybe animal glue? (made from hooves and horn and hide, etc.) You should research Georgian marbles.

How did you, or your GF, decide that you should have Georgian marbles?

snakey October 15 2007, 10:52:14 UTC

She was trying to find vintage (glass) marbles for crafting, and ran across them, and thought they were perfect for me (Georgian + me having lost them....)

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