"Low Pressure System" - (SOLD) |
1.41" One of Chris' early non-murrine marbles |
Chris was influenced by Josh Simpson's planets in the making of this one. |
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"Flower" - (SOLD) |
1.44" Millifiori petals (made with clear between the color veins) and flower murrine stamen |
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Cream-brown pinwheel backside |
Parrot-D's (A 'parrot-d' - you know, parody - of machine-made marbles, in this case, Parrots) |
Blue Flames - Most 5/8" with one 7/8" 'boulder' |
Oil Slicks |
Purple Swirls |
"All Together Now" - (SOLD) |
1.44" |
Rare Bill Gates on the backside! |
Bits and Bytes as well to go along with Bill. |
"Red Illusion" - (Sold) |
1.46" This was a prototype marble for Chris' Illusion series. |
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"Attack of the Bowling Balls" - Not For Sale |
1.02" My son Brendon drew this picture, then Lissa made the murrine and marble based on it |
Two bowling balls attack three terrified pins - HA! |
Part of C&L's 'Kids Mibs' project, it carries the signature sig chip |
"Butterfly Illusion" - (SOLD) |
1.56" A butterfly sits atop goldstone, which really pops in hand. |
These illusions are REALLY fun to explore, twisting and turning. |
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"Man in the Moon" - (SOLD) |
1.44" Quite the difficult marble to capture well in photographs! |
I liked this pic - you can see the upside-down reflection of the face |
All in all, an unusual, very one-of-a-kind marble from Chris |
"Two Views" - (SOLD) |
1.52" Two opposing murrines showing two classic views! |
One of my absoute favorite marbles, with the perfect juxtaposition on the two sides. |
Called by Chris "The rarest of rare". |
"Burano Canal" - (SOLD) |
1.40" This was their masterpiece at the time, an incredibly detailed, complex, bright and beautiful murrine! |
I almost feel like I'm there.... |
Gondolas adorn the backside - classic! |
"Illusion - Goldstone & Silver Leaf" |
1.41" This one has some sweet twists, and some really cool inclusions |
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Lots to see here! |
"Dichro Swirl" - (SOLD) |
1.76" I love this marble, had Chris make it special for me. |
Chris started doing this cool and unique dichro twisting which I've never seen anybody else do. Also cool twists on the side. |
Love this interesting honeycomb backside! |
"Stunt Plane" - (SOLD) |
1.60" |
SWEEEET backside! |
I think this is a classic look for the back of this one, swirling atmosphere. |
"California Burning" - Not For Sale |
1.24" Chris surprised me with this special marble which he made thinking of me during the horrible California fires of 2004 |
Thankfully those fires didn't touch us. |
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"Nuclear War" - (SOLD) |
1.60" This marble developed a crack in the mushroom cloud on the backside, but the murrine is intact on the front. |
The mushroom cloud backside - he nailed it, another classic backside to complement the front. |
This marble is about when Chris started putting little murrine chips around the main chip. LOTS of them here! |
"Tubes and Dichro" - (SOLD) |
1.42" An experimental marble Chris made |
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Love those colors.... |
"Basset Hound" - (SOLD) |
1.58" See the little bones and hounds surrounding the main murrine? Sweet. |
My wife Becky grew up with a B-Hound, so needed this in the collection. GREAT job with the eyes on the hound. |
A simpler back on this one.... |
"Chris" - (SOLD) |
1.45" - Lissa made this murrine of her hubby. |
What's cooler than having a murrine of the artist who made the marble? |
Some of the color on the back got a little hot. |
"Sea Turtle" - (SOLD) |
1.62" Again, some really cool murrine chips and milli around the main slice. |
I looooove this backside! Again, it goes SO well with the front and the subject. |
Very unique, very different, really completes the marble. |
"Four Tigers" - (SOLD) |
1.42" This is the first marble I have from Chris representing a transition in technique. |
Chris began fusing and then faceting his full murrine disc, and then created the marble around it. |
Another cool reflection in the last pic, showing on the clear 'ceiling' of the marble. |
"The Beatles - All Together Now" - (SOLD) |
1.80" - One of Chris' all-time classic designs, with all 4 Beatles. |
This one is also faceted, and Chris has gotten gotten complex at this point in time with his murrine/milli layouts. |
This was during Chris' dichro backside stage - REALLY beautiful dichro in hand. |
"Gandhi" - (SOLD) |
1.71" Classic and elegant, a perfect murrine. |
More of the gorgeous dichro backside. |
That last pic doesn't do it justice, and this one barely does - it REALLY pops in hand. |
"The Babe" - (SOLD) |
1.58" Baseball diamond milli surround Babe and complete the image |
Another exampled of faceted work |
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"James Dean" - (SOLD) |
1.55" Chris framed this one REALLY nicely. It is faceted to a silky smooth finish. |
Reflection of the murrine seen in the top of the marble here. |
Cool swirl |
"Illusion - Oranges and Greens" - (SOLD) |
1.37" |
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Spaaaaarkly! |
"Chinese Dragon" - (SOLD) |
1.39" The dragon, one of Chris' very first murrines, and one of the earliest marbles he made. |
Amazing marble to have in a Juedemann collection. |
This is what a lot of the early backsides looked like. |
"Sid Vicious" - (SOLD) |
1.47" Lead singer for the Sex Pistols. |
A marble collector friend of ours from Great Britian died, and I bought marbles Chris donated for the family. |
Aaah yes, sweet anarchy, ha haa. |
"Blue Ocean" - (SOLD) |
1.41" |
This is a really fun marble to explore, with waves twisting to and fro |
A clear window lets us see inside at one point |
"Gold Lutz Twist" - (SOLD) |
1.34" |
This is a really pretty marble, with the lutz really sparkling. |
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"British Paul Collection" |
These are the marbles Chris had been making for Paul. After Paul died, he sold them to help the family. |
I bought them, and display the marbles in this little candy dish. |
Sweet litte dish of eye candy, huh! |
"Many Murrine" ("31 Flavors") - (SOLD) |
2.05" This is simply one of the greatest marbles ever created to this point in civilization. 31 different murrine are seen. |
What's astounding about this marble is that after that amazing front side, you don't expect to turn it over and get knocked out. |
Bling Bling!! 3-dimensional magic in this lutz! |
"Jack Kerouac - On The Road" - (SOLD) |
2.41" Another ASTOUNDING marble. The positive and negative images of Jack represents the struggles of good and bad in his life |
Did you notice the tire tread pattern of the murrine? Ooooh yeaaah - "On the Road", Kerouac's most famous beatnik book. |
The faceting and composition of this disc is amazing, with an interesting milli swirl on the back. |
"Lance Armstrong Illusion" - (SOLD) |
1.56" Chris is an avid biker, and I used to be, so Lance is one of our heroes. See the little Lances on the side there? |
I was so pumped when I first saw this murrine! |
A super fun marble to explore, and Lance was a bit of an illusionist of course. How could he win SEVEN Tours??? |
"Raphael's 'The Alba Madonna'" - (SOLD) |
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"Flower Milli" - (SOLD) |
.85" A VEEERY early marble, one of Chris' first milli's and marbles. |
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Early sig chip. |
"Bill Gates" - (SOLD) |
1.43" Chris was testing standing the slice up inside the marble. |
It sort of worked! |
Cool backside. VERY little Bill Gates murrine out there.... |
"Uncle Sam Wants YOU!" - (SOLD) |
1.44" One of Chris' sweetest and obviously 'most patriotic' murrines. |
REEEALLY cool backside here - the r/w/b milli is layered over the lower larger milli. |
Love it! |
"Cane" - (SOLD) |
.92" A simple cane marble, Chris just messin' around.... |
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"Chihuly" - (SOLD) |
1.05" The glass master, one of Chris' earlier and more basic portrait murrines. |
I got the reflection right side up this time, heh heh. |
There's that early sig chip again. Cool back. |
"Chief Yellow Buffalo" - (SOLD) |
1.71" With this murrine, Chris went back to the cane pickup method, and left faceting behind. |
The faceting process ended up causing a lot of lost glass. After trying 90 COE for a while, Chris went back to 104. |
LOVE this backside - looks like an Indian headdress, perfect for this marble. |
"March of the Penguins" - (SOLD) |
1.29" Yes, inspired by the movie. I LOVE this simple marble! |
The different sized penguins gives the illusion of depth and distance. |
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"Erik on the Torch" - (SOLD) |
1.93" Boro artist Erik Anders was forever memorialized in glass when Chris chose a pic of him to make into a murrine. |
Another GREAT backside for this one - 'torch-like' milli complete the beautiful design. |
Gorgeous oranges. |
"Reagan Makes a Toast" - (SOLD) |
1.85" Another classic murrine, taking us back in time. |
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'Missile silo' millis complete this design. |
"Buffalo Bill Exploration" - (SOLD) |
1.76" A Really fun marble - ground viewing windows allow you to 'explore' the inside of the marble. |
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You can even explore the swirled backside! |
"The Wizard of Oz" - (SOLD) |
2.51" This marble is the coup de grace. It's really hard to imagine a cooler marble ever being created. |
This witch is WICKED! That crystall ball simply ROCKS. Chris used fuming to achieve some of the effects here. |
Follow the yellow brick road, complete with red poppies! |
"Willie and the Dragons" - (SOLD) |
1.65" Willie Nelson is surrounded by 4 Chinese Dragons and lots of sweet milli. |
This is another of Chris' very early marbles, one of his best back then. |
I love that ivory color. |
"Andy Warhol" - (SOLD) |
1.84" Amazing to make the Warhol image in glass, and then ALSO create a classic Warhol design with it! |
Reflections on the ceiling.... |
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"Heeeeere's Johnny!" - (SOLD) |
1.78" One of THE all time classic scenes from Hollywood |
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Sweet millie twist here |
"Iwo Jima" - (SOLD) |
2.07" The classic World War II image, so awesomely memorialized. |
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"Max Headroom" - $600 |
3.75" x 5.6" Fused glass with 3 murrine images of Max |
Closeups |
Tadaaaa! It's transparent purple glass!! |
"Vince Lombardi" - (SOLD) |
1.80" A MUST for the Packers fan! |
One of the nicest marbles Chris has made.... |
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"Inevitable Dealer Button" - (SOLD) |
2.18" x .18" thick - "Here's Johnny", "John Wayne", "Muhammad Ali", "Buffalo Bill", "Egyptian Heiroglyphs" and various millie. |
2nd pic is backside, "Dealer" in the middle of course. It is shaped and faceted perfectly, beautifully! |
Looks really sweet with some backlighting! |
"Wheaton Front Porch Jam" |
1.90" Front porch at night murrine is surrounded by a fumed crescent moon, wavy to represent the sands of the Jersey beaches. |
This is based on Marble Weekend 2007 held at Wheaton Village in Milltown, New Jersey. |
Here's the pic by Sonya Schneidereit that Chris based the murrine on. I'm in a J murrine! That's me, center, in front of door. |
"The Godfather in Granite" - (SOLD) |
1.50" Something new Chris tried - glass and rock together. A slice of Godfather murrine was combined with a chunk of granite. |
A sphere grinder was used to round this out - it is perfectly smooth and round in its final form here. |
Chris found this chunk of granite in a stream behind their home. |
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"Jerry Garcia" - (SOLD) |
0.90" One of Chris' cane style marbles, also done on the sphere grinder, using a chunk of Jerry Garcia cane. |
Pics 1 and 2 are front and back, and then here is the striation of the cane on the side where you can see the stringers used. |
Only 4 of these were made, probably because of difficulty with fracture in the cane, which you can see. |
"Bauta #14" - Not For Sale |
1.29" I LOVE the cartoon character that the grinding produced on this one! |
These are one of a kind, sphere ground from a one-shot cane that Chris produced. |
I'd love to see the process of the construction of the Bautas. |
"Uhuru #24" - (SOLD) |
1.38" Another cool sphere ground marble that does great with light play. Love the symmetry here. |
This one has a large clear cane running through it, off-center, cool feature. I love the nuclear reactor look of this marble. |
These little thin canes, suspended in the clear, look awesome in hand! Fun marble. |
"Uhuru End of Day" - (SOLD) |
1.87" Not sure how Chris got those canes in there sideways like that, VERY interesting. |
There is one large clear cane and several smaller ones, the classic feature of Uhuru marbs. |
Another one of a kind, sphere-ground marble. |
"Agrestic U #1" - (SOLD) |
3.50" This beast is the largest all-Moretti marble made up to this point in history! |
Took a month's worth of cane, 5 artists all together to pull it off, a week in the kiln. |
Chris put lots of clear between some of the canes, makes for an incredible effect. |
"Uhuru #34" - (SOLD) |
2.31" Another sphere ground wonder, a fairly large beaut. |
I love how you can look down into the clear holes and see the cane colors! |
Really sweet cane used in this one, love it. |
"Many Murrine" (Sphere Ground) - (SOLD) |
1.44" Some of the Juedemanns later murrine. |
There is a message around the equator of the marble, for you to decipher. |
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