These marbles come from one of the world's most renown glass artists, Ro Purser, who has been working with glass for over 5 decades! Ro is one of THE greatest glass artists of our time, and we are privileged that he has chosen to devote most of that talent, time and energy to making these spherical marbleous creations. It is simply astounding glass, etched in time as some of the most amazing glass art ever created. Ro is credited, along with his friend and fellow famous glass artist Richard Marquis, with creating the world's first art glass marbles, back in 1973, and then first selling them at a Marin County Renaissance Faire in northern California in 1975. These were simply cane style marbles based on early German hand-made swirls, but they were sold as collectors items at the faire after people watched them being made. The overwhelming positive reaction to them caused the 'Noble Effort' team of Purser and Marquis to go on to create the first Murrini Spheres in the late 70's and 80's, some of the most coveted marbles that exist in the world today.

Each marble Ro makes takes many days to complete, and in fact weeks and months when you view the entire process from start to finish, including the laborious process of creating so much murrini cane used in the marbles. These are some of the most premium marbles you'll ever find, legendary in the technical aspects necessary to achieve them, and stunningly beautiful in the artistic as well. As Ro will attest, he is the only person in the world crazy enough to even try something like this, much less to continue to repeat the painstaking process over and over again. Your contemporary collection will never be complete until it has a Ro Purser marble in it!

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