Copper Capped Cobalt Lightning Rod Ball with indented C mark

falconer · Jan 31, 2015

I collect old glass and started a lightning ball collection a few years back. I recently came upon something I cannot identify but wow is it something. See the stylized C indented into the upper level of the ball. I do not believe this was an error but an actual makers mark. Let me know if anyone out there has ideas to the origin.

RED Matthews · Mar 3, 2015

So a big hello Ron, I have several lightning rod balls and expect to start trying to sell them next summer. I also have two or three books about them. The thing that fascinates me the most is the lightning rod glass pendents that were hung on a set of metal bracket arms, below the main ball. these are sort-of a tear drop glass shape with a threaded top. The stupid thing is that they put a headed wire up through a hole in the cap. Rain would leak through the hole and into the ornament. In the winter it would freeze and the pendent would break. The one I have is a ribbed light green glass one. These things are quite hard to find - I think - because this one is the only one I have ever seen. I have a little lightning rod here in my bottle den, that has a red rod ball and a wind direction arrow with a green glass tail on it. It is attached to a roof shape wooden hase. RED Matthews

MuddyMO · Mar 3, 2015

It kinda looks like an emerging bubble? Hard to say looking on a phone. Beautiful nonetheless.

sandchip · Mar 3, 2015

I believe that is some sort of anomaly in the glass, more than likely what Muddy suggested and unfortunately, not any type of marking, but it's still a beautiful piece.

Oldihtractor · Mar 5, 2015

I have a red one exactly the same as this. I have collected these a long time. I feel these are a newer ball..

RED Matthews · Mar 8, 2015

So that is a beauty. I have three that are similar. one is white, one is green, and all three of them are in New York. That one of yours should be worth some bucks. I will see if I can find it in one of my books. RED Matthews

nammlif · Mar 8, 2015

The LRB shown above is, I think a marked ball, to show that it was a reproduced ball...earlier in the hobby, they tried to get some of the less scrupulous gents to mark balls they were trying to reproduce...Looks like the mark...Just my opinion...

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