I know jack about marbles

[Icewing]

I dug this old marble a couple years ago in front of what used to be an old store building. It has a flat spot which make me think its an older handmade one. Can any of you smart fellas ID it?

 

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[cheese]

Hello Icewing!

That is a machine made marble from around the 1940s. It's a Peltier rainbo made in Ottowa, Illinois. Might have gotten the flat spot from being in a house fire or something like that. ALways cool when you find an old marble!

 

[Icewing]

Hello Icewing!

That is a machine made marble from around the 1940s. It's a Peltier rainbo made in Ottowa, Illinois. Might have gotten the flat spot from being in a house fire or something like that. ALways cool when you find an old marble!

I dug it up while metal detecting near the steps of what used to be an old store building so I'm about 99% sure it wasn't in a fire.
If it's not handmade I'd say it's a manufacturing defect because it just looks like it was made that way.

 

[cheese]

Definitely not handmade, so it may be made that way. Many marbles left the factories out of round, with wrinkles and cold rolls, flat spots, etc... When you make half a million marbles a day, you can't catch all the bad ones as they roll out.