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Ok, it's not a marble, but it is big- just over 6 inches. Megladon tooth.

Scored these popeyes and corkscrews for $35. One popeye has oxblood

Thank you BOB !!

Here's the biggest one I have. 2 1/8 inch Three Layer Divided Core.

Love them Corks and Snakes...

With two recent donations of $100 each from two members, we now have $241 applied toward advanced hosting fees, so about nine months of hosting! It will be seven years next month since @LouisCamp handed me the reigns to the site. To give you an idea how old this forum is, Louis's account was created in June of 2005. I couldn't have kept it going these seven years without the financial support and our moderators. Discussion forums are rare these days, and this forum in particular is priceless in its wealth of information about this great hobby. I hope it will always be around even after I have to pass it on to some some younger collector who is also a tech geek. 😎

TGIF

@crashbelt @Royal3 @Alta @Chad G. Wow, you've been posting some great marbles since I was last here! Here's an 11/16" marble I've never seen before. I'm calling it a Caramel Ribbon Swirl with Mica. Caramel Swirls with Mica are a thing, but the ribbons in this one are very similar to what you would find in a clear glass ribbon lutz. No lutz here, unfortunately, but it's a pretty rare find and pretty cool IMO. I thought about adding "end of cane" since the ribbons thin out and lose their structure before they reach the faceted pontil. I even considered "end of day" since it's such an oddball - no sense getting carried away though. 😉 Please let me know if you've seen another or think I might be off with my description. 🙂

Thank you Mibs, I appreciate you dropping a link! That’s an excellent one Alta, congratulations on that color combo. Nothing like taking a closer look at your commons and discovering a hidden gem 💎Gotta love this hobby!

Part of the popeye score - .70" blue oxblood

Love me some smaller Handmades

I am a fan of Marble King and Oct/Nov has been good to me, a couple marble friends and trades and sales have even been better yet. In this group are some cross through cats, blended Girl Scouts and my first ever Girl Scout. ( I'll never forget my first Girl Scout ) A pretty cool wasp, Bumblebee Shooter and a pair of nice players to go with it. Perhaps a hybrid anemic bee there. Some nice tri color rainbows, maybe one has 4 colors on the left. That pink patched one glows bright under UV and I am told that very one came right off the ground at Marble King and commented on by Beri Fox to my friend the finder. I see some aventurine in there on one. Some Rainbow Reds, an Irish or maybe even two, a blue Rainbow with perhaps that Kato patch. This group gives my MK collection a little boost for sure. Thanks for looking!

Fairly recent score - Mint .66" faceted mist lutz onionskin for $8

Big blue MFC

And then you have the opaque ones These you want 🤓

Heatons can have a tongue. From what I've learned (from cheese) the tongue trait is more prominent with Ravenswood than other makers, but it can exist with any swirl maker. I learned this when he ID a Heaton for me with a clear tongue.

Please post the biggest marbles you have, antique or contemporary, new, makes no difference. A name or manufacturer would help newbies out a great deal if you know it. I'll start with some Antique Germans. Banded Lutz Sulphide (Donkey) 4 Panel mica onionskin

My Sparklers

2.5 Sulfide

Here is the biggest Vacor Atmosphere that I currently own--It is being sold very soon. Around two inches. Marble--On!!

Hot House Glass

Actually, I don't get notifications, but someone let me know this was here. Christie has already reached out to me via email, so we're talking about it. But, yes, I still have the statue. I bought it as part of Bert Cohen's collection, when I bought the collection after he passed away. I have no idea where Bert got it from, and of course Rosalie didn't know. Subsequently I leant it to the Kansas City Toy Museum back in 2018 I think for the exhibit that Scott McBride had put together on marble tournaments. Since then it has been sitting in the packing crate tucked in the back of my storage room. Interestingly, Marie Lawley was feted at the Eastern States Exposition (The Big E) the year that she won her championship and was presented with a loving cup marking the occasion. Coincidentally it came to me as a consignment earlier this year and I sold it in an auction over the summer. The listing is here: https://bid.marbleauctions.com/online-auctions/blocks-marble-auctions/miscellaneous-trophy-rare-presentation-trophy-silverplate-7973619

Happy Saturday!

21/32"

Happy Akro Friday! 13/16"

Thanks Stephen, and those who contributed. Great video! Love those Vitros!

My horseshoe cat's eye shooters:

USN, USS Enterprise, CVN-65

Did some research. That photo came from a find in Europe over 15 years ago. German handmade marbles around 1” in size.

Lightning Strikes

HTF marble, especially in mint condition. The more the oxblood, the higher the price. With heavy oxblood they can go $300+

2" millefiori onionskin

Vitro Opal my Favorite for Today

Thank you Stonehenge! It seems to have brought some luck for my Vikings. Post your lucky “team” marble if you have one🔥 RAR

Chad you had posted this in the “Wish” section…for every winner there’s a loser, for every buyer there’s a seller…and yes, I miss this big boy…

Look at the left row of calligraphies in Ron Shepherd's salesman sample box. Where does flame end and calligraphy begin? I would put this marble next to my calligraphies and consider it to be one some days and not one some days depending on how it hit me on that day. It's borderline. Some of the other calligs in this case are less busy than the OP marble, for whatever that's worth.

Here are some caged cat's eyes too:

Some nice vitros I bought this weekend:

Well, I guess we can put this “short tail” behind us then😉

Corkscrews with Oxblood

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$20 for this cigar box...the right time and the right place. No way it sat there very long before I spotted it. Snag 😎👍

Not sure why you would make a torch marble and then beat it up and sell it as a near mint marble.

Can I cry now or later

Same set, I just had wooden box made for the mibs. It took a while but I did it. No offset av patches all clear stamps, no fleas or dimples, mint, I'm a happy camper

Type 3

Not verry common to find an EOD coat like this, I got a lot of $$ for this one, 1 & 3/16ths a monster for a coat of this type and gem mint, bye bye

Might as well dream big right