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A couple of my favorites.

Some pictures of the display 🎉 Thank you all who made this possible Forever thankfull Marble On Brothers and Sisters !!!! 🙏⚓️♥️

Marble King 😍 Enjoy 😁

Peltier ♥️ Enjoy the pictures 😁

Akro Friday 1. Red, Orange, and Blue Special 5/8" 2. Red and Orange Special 3. Double stream Orange and Yellow on an Amber base 19/32" 4. Orange Spiral 5/8" 5. Orange, Yellow, and Lavender 21/32"

My most recent additions the past two months. I have another Clown blue base and Vitro Buttermilk on the way.

4 years has passed since i started collecting marbles Want to say thanks to all the people here that made it possible for me to have what i have here now ....on display and stored in a big "treasure chest" Learned a lot here and made a lot of friends Was honored to be a part of some video's Stephen Bahr made and working with Andy McLaughlin was really a privilige Made a lot of trades and hope everyone is happy what i sended I like to "showoff" some of the best i got from you all Thanks 🙏⚓️♥️.....God bless you All Enjoy the pictures 👌🏻 I shall begin with some Akro 🥰

Jackson ✌🏻

Alley 🔥

CAC 💪🏻

Master Marbles ✨️ Awsome Marbles 😁 Enjoy the pictures

It's with great excitement and anticipation that I am now FINALLY able to enable the site for ordering! *Be sure to follow the instructions when ordering so that we can match the book order to the Paypal or Venmo payment when it comes through* When submitting payment, be sure to put the unique order number in the notes for your payment of Venmo or Paypal so we know which payment matches the order. We have the site set to 1 or 2 book orders (many folks want one to use for study and one to keep mint). If you want more, you can order as many times as you like or if you want combined shipping, contact me and I'll get it figured depending on how many books you get. If you need to mail a payment then message me. We also plan to have books at the Des Moines show in a couple weeks. Thank you! Here is the link: wvswirls/ This is a quality, durable hard cover book with about 277 pages made of one hundred pound gloss paper with a super strong sewn binding. There are approximately 14,000 photos compiled and separated into their respective factories and in the case of Alley Agate, separated by factory location. Images are sharp detailed offset printed in Canada and the publishing itself was done here in the USA in South Carolina by Palmetto Publishing. The cover has a gloss lamination protectant and the book is about three and a half pounds, ~1 inch thick and 9x11. The quality is that of a reference book and the print is that of an art book. The book is $115 shipped with insurance or $218 for two. If you have trouble ordering or can't pay with the methods offered, feel free to message me.

Great images for sure. At first I thought ---pretty hairy palm of hand—unless we have some new off world species posting here—then I got it—no off worlders yet—that I know of---well may be me . This is just a beautiful example of an image of a marble—even though it could be cropped a tad more. This one is a beautiful example of a "maybe" Vitro Cat and it may need some more evaluation—this one is special. Ask Bob Block for a job--just killer images. Great job--show some more!! Marble--On!!

The blue one is a bead, not a marble. The pic is too poor to make out the others. You can buy a Mark Matthews Super Jetson. About 2.75".

A big thank you for everyone involved in the New Jersey Show last weekend! We had a terrific day thanks to the awesome attendees and vendors ! Here’s some photos of the event. We maxed out our capacity and are thinking about moving next year’s show into a Hotel.

Had it in the Vitro’s. Think it’s probably an Akro. Nice size at .87

So found these lovely little old handmade bag with marbles which I'm not too good on if I'm honest. Maybe akro agates?. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks for looking

Oh it’s Monday!

Nice! Those are St. Marys Alleys. Looks like they are the contents of a box or bag and have stayed together through the years. The one looks like a fancy or exotic type or coral I think. Would be a great group to keep together and not mixed up with others to use as fill for a box or just for posterity.

Clown

Any ID on this one? I can't find anything like it online. Measures .87 inches

Such a well defined booty....is that a jabo or?...

New Jersey Marble show on Apr 26 2025 "Booty" What a GREAT TIME! My first marble show ever. The people were awesome. I didn't go to spend money but I did spend a little. The highlight for me was the people. Marble Kings A Celtic Rainbow. 6 Cub scouts, a couple blue rainbows and a tri colored rainbow. More modern Marble Kings Jack told me the ones on the left were an experiment of some kind with making Cats Eyes and they were a real P.I.TA. to work with. Center are 4 new Supermen. The only kind I can afford. On the right are some Anemic Bumble Bees that didn't get the yellow glass yet. VAmarbles and Stephen Bahr gave me these. VA gave me this big 1 3/16th Boulder which I think is maybe a Vacor Scorpion or maybe a Black Panther. I am pretty sure he have me that green on white swirl that you see in the cello bag on the checker board lower right. He told me it's a good one but couldn't recall exactly the name of it. I'll find out in time. But the Rocks Cousteau "Day Maker" for this Mega Marble Guy ( which I may ask to change my name here to ) was the Frosted Michelangelo I think, it has blue on the other side. That was also from VA. I was blown away. They don't grow on trees. Thank you! Stephen may not have given me that crazy MK in that picture. Has a neat ribbed yellow patch. I think the other two are also from him. THUMBS up. I also got an awesome Early Goldfish Shooter as a gift from Stephen. I bought all the rest of those shooters at his table. Front and center is that green on white swirl I mentioned above along with some others I bought separately in a baggie from Adam. Adam also gave me 4 shooters. I'm telling ya. Here I think are three cool Master Marbles from that baggie. Some Pelts and some odds and ends and then I think these pee wees might be Akro and the Mama. I am starting to gather quite a few of this kind. I love those green and yellow ones, well, maybe I like them very much. and some patches, I am guessing 2 Vitro 1 Master and 1 Akro. Soon as I got in the door I met Dave T And he gave a deal on two of these nice bags of Jabo's. All my favorite Youtube movie stars were there. Mr Alley and the Marble Avenger. And almost on the way out I returned to people I got the checker board and supplies from and bought these beautiful Jabos. Finally, my shooters, I came to find a lot more than this and they were there I'm sure but I had a marble brain freeze after a couple hours. Sort of a cross between an ice cream brain freeze and temporary amnesia. Too much info to take it all in and the people were so cool, I just stopped shopping and had fun. Said hi to Bob on the way out. I said Hi to everyone.

A nice pile of Flinties. Marble--On!!

Tornado

First, congratulations for hitting the 4-year mark. You’ve done yourself proud. Second, you take excellent photos. Your skill really make the marbles shine and show their beauty! Third, you may part with your marbles, but you won’t part from your friends. Fourth, wishing you the best and many, many more years of collecting and making forever friends. Cheers! -John

Some Heatons 🤠

Champions 🏆

Another Vitro Blue Devil, nice large Spiderman and a very nice blue Mica.

I'd call it Alley.

I can ship to UK but the price will be different than what the site shows. Contact me about it before purchase and I'll figure it up for you. Thank you all! I'm loading up the truck back seat every day with packages to take to the post office. You won't be disappointed in this book, I assure you!

I am pretty sure this is a Cubscout. These are a little beat up but still awesome. 🙂 Oh, I am correct about this marble correct?

This one has a nice pink tone in it, ot sure of maker, if I had ti guess I'd say Vitro. Size is .62 Any help is appreciated as always!!

So I won 8 lots on hibid at the end of last month. They finally arrived yesterday. Here are the auction pictures. Over 400 marbles and no damage was mentioned but for the Akro shooter. There were probably 100 that were chipped, fractured or had multiple pin pricks or were heavily played with. Terrible. Other lots were listed as having damage so I thought these should be a lot better. Of course some will get by the seller sometimes but my last experience with this seller was awesome. Oh well, I still think I got my moneys worth and there were a few goodies but nothing to jump up and down about. I am not going to complain to the seller. I just won't go back. Here are the survivors that are acceptable to me that have made it to thier final resting place with thier own kind. There are some I need to ID yet but most are safe and snug at home with thier kin. and these are not in the picture but are all Peltier Cats. I don't think they all qualify to be Bananas, but there are some in this lot of 50 I made up. ( Not the same as the Pelts in the top left corner ). Thanks for looking, it's always good to have more marbles to add to the collection.

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Thank you! That Blue, I know what you're talking about and I've thought in the past that the blue must be in between color changes in the glass, maybe it is, but why always a dark inky Blue? These four have some variation of it. Fun to consider.

Thank you for sharing Chad ! 💥💥💥

All look mk except the blue and red patches are vitro.

"Welcome to Marble Connection" Yes, you have some real beauties there, cross your fingers for no damage and you have some very nice ones indeed. But the sentimental value always overrides the condition, I like your Fathers taste, like I said some real beauties

My initial thought on this one was rainbo, just looks a little different and unusual so thought I'd ask. Size is .96

why is it a hybrid ??

Is it not a folded up Pelt Rainbo.

Completely changing the subject—but just to let you know, I might not be able to visit the forum much until sometime in next week. On Saturday, May 3rd, I’ll be giving a marble talk at the Yamagata Prefectural Industrial Science Museum. The event is for ten families with children, elementary school age and up. I won’t be speaking for that long, but I’m busy with preparations, so I may be mostly offline until then. It’s currently Golden Week in Japan, a string of national holidays, and we’re right in the middle of it now. The holiday continues through Tuesday, and I plan to spend some time with my family. I’ll be back to work on Wednesday—and that day is also already fully booked until late in the evening. 😃✨ Yamagata Prefectural Industrial Science Museum: https://y-sunka.org

Always happy to see Akros 🤩 Here is a variety of Yellow Onyx for this Friday: 1. 17/32" 2. 19/32" 3. 21/32" 4. 11/16"

Any assigned nicknames to this particular Rainbow 🌈 combo? Around ⅝"

Agree, a common Rainbo, but as stated those are some really cool colors going on there. And I always liked this darker, seedy base glass. Nice Pelt

Excited to meet these marble people I admire. I'll be there at that NJ show. It will be my first marble show ever. I have a funny feeling I am going to have a good time. I'll be wearing a busy pink and blue floral shirt with lighter blue jean shorts when the doors open. Woo Hoo! LATE EDIT: 6:30 PM Sat 4/26/25 Since I can add to this post rather than post again ( which I will with my recent "booty" in another score post ) I just wanted to give a quick and short report of my first marble show ever. Up before the birds, I drove in the fog and rain a couple hundred miles to NJ and the show was in full swing even before 9 AM. I met all of Stephen Bahr's youtube allstar cast and of course VAmarbles was there and gave me a wonderful present. He was so nice to meet in person. I am a huge fan of Stephen Bahr and his friends. Adam the co-host was so friendly, actually everyone, I mean EVERYONE was super nice. The chatter in the clubhouse was non stop and well, it was far from quiet too. I just loved this day. It was worth the grueling drive, yes it was a couple hundred miles home too. I live out in the country with the cows, NJ is a bit busier. I got me some sweet mibs. Not expensive ones but I did well and had a blast. Thank you all. The people were actually the highlight and the marbles were the almost as good as the peeps. Including the collectors. awesome! FUN FUN FUN !!!

Thanks John !! Appreciate your comment very mutch 🙏⚓️♥️