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This was a great year for finding marbles!

They are "impossible" to ID until you've looked at and handled literally millions from various locations, and then they suddenly become only "nearly impossible" to ID. This one is Ravenswood. Size (many RWs are smaller than 5/8" but the late transparent swirls are commonly over)... fits the type. Bubbles fits. Peachy champagne base glass fits. Fleshy tone to the ribbon fits. Pattern fits. Coppery colored splotch marks in pic 4 seals the deal.

Mine has more white

"Superboy" 0,70

Been working on these for almost a year with a shop keeper. Finally called me and ready to sell.

I think the song goes….”Silver and Gold “(Lutz).

I hear ya Tommy. It’s going to be a very Merry Marble Christmas for sure when I open up The Book🚀🔥 RAR

A handful of masters I found in the wild today for $10.

Had this, just in case...

He finally got me

Looks like the consensus says CAC swirl, that's my take anywho...never heard of a CAC Cubscout...

Lazy Cork. 5/8 size. Lavender and Teal Green combo. Are these HTF? Not a huge Akro collector. Thanks.

A few Alleys found through the years

This cold weather has me feeling blue☺️

This one got some character

19/32 equals Monster? Nice CAC but....?

I would like to describe some of these beautiful European marbles that were made in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, mainly at the renowned veiligglas glassworks, but also partly in Germany. Some of these marbles can have very twisted and busy wire or stripe patterns, others can have swan neck, flame, or even (as I consider them) calligraphic marbles that resemble the typical calligraphic marbles of Alley Agate. The latter seem to be found mainly in those with an amber base, followed by the purple ones. The first marble I will show features the classic and typical 'swan neck' pattern. There will be others with flaming patterns, very busy, calligraphic, etc. Good vision, I hope it's pleasant

My newest copperhead

This is not funny to me, we are who we are here @TheMarbleConnection. I let this stuff ride for quite awhile before stepping in. Yours is a very nice --large sized "Jabo Classic" (a marble made for production and general sales) that shows no damage--pretty rare imho. These big ones generally show up with little white "Hit Marks"--just from packaging and shipping. They are quite soft in the world of glass marbles and prone to damage. As far as showing one like it--good luck is all that I can say--these came in a multitude of color combos--most suck--yours is pretty cool. Respect to you--just keep it cool. We do not suck here--we just try to help to ID marbles and keep it cool-- Merry Christmas Marble--On!!

Every time i look at it, it Reminds me of the Donkey the KING rode in on.

These are milkweed pod ornaments 1968🔥 RAR

Yes, they are tough in that champagne colored glass...when I take a stab at these, it's not without visiting many companies pics for sure, and still won't be 100% sure... As Ron Shepherd once told me, you can study 7 days a week, x amount of hours a day, for literally many years, and still consider yourself fortunate to accurately identify two thirds of what you look at... God Bless him...

Those are hard ...I cant see any super defined traits many companies made these i think they are cool some of my favorite mystery mibs ...got my book cant open til Christmas lol. Could help idk

My dancing Santa. My Aunts made this and gave it to me for Christmas in 1965. Pull the string and he dances🔥 RAR

Here's one of my favorite decorations for the Xmas Season...

I have some neat Popeyes, Snakes and Corkscrews, They are easy for me to figure out. These have been stacking up on me and I still can't figure a Master Marble Comet or Meteor from an Akro Agate Royal or Hero. I think I have some in these images. I know I have some Moss Agates. A couple yellow ones light up under UV. I have some Akro Agate in the second picture too but these are not easy for me. Even with studying seams on them I start to get frustrated. My gut feeling is that I am on the right track though as I am thinking half might be Akro Agates and in the smaller group there has to be a few winners. Obviously some are not but I have not ID-ed those yet or put them with their like kind.

A couple of new marbles ☺️

A few master shooters I got today.

I’m in shock ! Pokey just blew my marble mind. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this is in my permanent collection🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 RAR

🔥 RAR

Annealing Fracture IMO, even if you can or can't feel it, some are subsurface and can't be felt with your fingernail some aren't, 100% machine made whether you can see where it was sheared off or not, no indications of it being a single gather IMO. A HTF marble yes, still not a 9.9, 9.0 mint - because of the fracture IMO, rarity doesn't boost condition. Pontils always refer to handmades, torched pigtails, faceted, unfinished or whatever. Machine mades were cut off with shears by a machine, so no pontils, shear marks, if they can be found. BTW- No such thing as "non fluorescing Ade glass" since that's what ade entails, if it has an ade base it should react to uv light. A good marble will sell itself in my experience. If you like it buy it, whatever makes you happy, as long as you're satisfied but I find the description more than misleading IMO.

Christmas and Veterans---- Merry Christmas to you all this next week or so. Let’s dedicate some of our best marbles and images to the Veterans that made this year a possibility for us all. This is a simple Akro corkscrew in olive drab and white. These often show some flakes of AV—really just flakes in green that were not mixed well in the batch glass—but I will call it AV because it is so rare in Akro marbles. Rarer still, is my Grandfather on the right with his two brothers who fought in WW1. Salute!! Marble—On!!

My fav. .87

Master made a pretty good many larger ones. This is one of them.

This one measures in at 2.75" - made in Akron.

Ahhhhh!!!!!

The lattice in this one seems finer then others I have

MFC

Day 2: Two Turtle Doves ( Vacor Turtles )

Some Akros for this Friday

Fun

Thank you VaM. Gotta luv’ the Christmas color combo. Marble Santa is on the way to the P.O. 🔥 RAR🎅

Merry Christmas !

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