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Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:42:30 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline I dug for less than an hour at a 40's-50's dump today. I guess I've been spoiled by digging older stuff, I didn't feel like digging it much at all. Anyway, I got a cool Bennington marble that is older than the dump was. It's got a "pontil" typical of the 1890's marbles, and the flat unpainted end where they sat to dry. It is clearly hand rolled into a mostly round shape. All typical stuff, except for the fact that it has a face painted on it! Clearly intentional, there are two blue splotches with a white dot in the center, and below that, a blue splotch that is a mouth. I don't think this was an accident; maybe it was a German marble maker being funny? This thing saw some serious use. It's covered in little impact marks from other marbles. I bet a kid in the 40's got it from his dad, who used it in when he was a kid. Either way, I like it. I dug one just like it in my 1890's dump. Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. Post #: 1

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:43:28 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline o4w8m5hy83vh Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 2

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:43:53 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline SpOoKy... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 3

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:44:28 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline SpOoKy Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 4

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:45:24 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline SpOoKy Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 5

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 3:47:16 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline I found a dunce cap for it... Attachment (1) _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 6

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 5:36:35 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11898 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Wheelah23 SpOoKy Attachment (1) _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 7

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/2/2011 6:43:46 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline The mouth isn't right, but it's certainly got the eyes... Attachment (1) < Message edited by Wheelah23 -- 10/2/2011 6:45:21 PM > _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 8

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/3/2011 8:34:45 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Anyone else think this was made like that on purpose? _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 9

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/3/2011 8:45:07 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 11898 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: offline It looks like only the "youngins" replied to this thread No I dont think it was made on purpose but then again some one could have been messing around when they made it _____________________________ My web site. Lots of privy and dump dig pictures. Also dig story's I had published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector magazine and Western & Eastern Treasure's www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 10

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/4/2011 7:47:53 AM    LtlBtl Posts: 180 Joined: 1/1/2011 Status: offline I believe those marks are from where the marbles came into contact with others during manufacturing process. Put a handful of marbles onto a flat surface. Push them together. Notice where they touch. (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 11

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/4/2011 11:02:31 AM    madman Posts: 10364 Joined: 2/5/2005 Status: offline heres one i found BOO! Attachment (1) _____________________________ always looking for, Toledo Ohio, Knoxville Tn. milks pharms and sodas, (in reply to LtlBtl) Post #: 12

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 10/15/2011 12:54:54 AM    surfaceone Posts: 7119 Joined: 12/9/2008 Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: Wheelah23 SpOoKy... Hey Connor, Might be the heralded Dragonfly Eye Bennington. From. (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 13

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/8/2011 8:40:51 PM    loris19   Posts: 13 Joined: 5/30/2011 Status: offline Found one just like this today out of a 1890's dump. I have no ideas about marbles. Anyone ever figure out anything about this one? (in reply to surfaceone) Post #: 14

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/8/2011 8:50:03 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline quote: ORIGINAL: loris19 Found one just like this today out of a 1890's dump. I have no ideas about marbles. Anyone ever figure out anything about this one? Let's see a picture! The consensus seems to have been that it was a coincidence of how the marbles happened to clink together when they were being made, but if yours is similar, maybe it wasn't just a coincidence... _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to loris19) Post #: 15

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/11/2011 9:47:52 PM    loris19   Posts: 13 Joined: 5/30/2011 Status: offline Here it is. Attachment (1) (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 16

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/11/2011 9:52:55 PM    loris19   Posts: 13 Joined: 5/30/2011 Status: offline another pic Attachment (1) (in reply to loris19) Post #: 17

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/11/2011 11:09:47 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Wow, yours is pretty much the exact same as mine! I wish some of the marble experts would chime in, it's like there's some kind of conspiracy... Attachment (1) < Message edited by Wheelah23 -- 11/11/2011 11:10:37 PM > _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to loris19) Post #: 18

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/13/2011 8:45:03 PM    epackage Posts: 9835 Joined: 5/3/2009 From: Jersey Status: online Bennington marbles are a type of glazed clay marble. They are not very dense. The marbles are fired clay with a salt glaze on them. Benningtons are readily identifiable by both their coloring and the little 'eyes' that they have on them.These are spots where the marbles were touching each other while they were being fired, resulting in those spots being uncolored and unglazed. The term 'bennington' is actually a misnomer. There is no evidence that they were ever made in Bennington, Vermont, or that they have any lineage to the Bennington pottery that they resemble and from which they get their name. It appears that all Bennington marbles were imported from Germany. _____________________________ I WANT PATERSON NJ BOTTLES !! Being NICE for the SAKE of OTHERS !!! (in reply to Wheelah23) Post #: 19

RE: Freaky Bennington with a face - 11/13/2011 9:13:30 PM    Wheelah23 Posts: 4294 Joined: 8/9/2010 From: Glen Ridge, New Jersey Status: offline Thanks for the help! I figured that was what caused them. I just have to wonder, what are the chances that on TWO marbles, the spots are arranged like that? _____________________________ Looking for bottles from Glen Ridge, Montclair, Bloomfield, Orange, East Orange, West Orange, South Orange, and if I like 'em, any other bottles from Essex County NJ! Also Manahawkin NJ! Message me if you want to find them a new home. (in reply to epackage) Post #: 20

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