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

Christmas!

One is contemporary.

Haven't posted this in a minute

@Chad G. I have 8 Veili wirepulls .93 to .97. Just looked up @warcor and he is from the UK.

My Sparklers

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

🔥 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.

The Vacor is a Liberty 🔥 RAR

The Nickel Guy wow! I was blown away when I received this box of treasures ! Of course the first thing I saw was that massive Rectangular Planter 😍 And then getting to unwrap all the other packages was like early Christmas, but I suppose that's the whole point haha. An Andy Davis Spinning Top and Base, three Peltier Transparent Rainbos, a WHOPPER 1 Inch Vacor Spaghetti, a Vitro Conqueror (which I've always admired, but now I own one!), four WV Swirls for which I now own the book and can study them to find out what I have . . . but WAIT! There's more! An absolutely gorgeous set of Vacor SuperNovas which were handpicked for me for their unusual darker color 🤩 AND some Alley Cullet dug by Ron Shepherd ❤️ with handpicked Alley marbles. . . . WHAT?? @The Nickel Guy This was an amazing way to start the Christmas season, all this Orange just lifts my spirit. I mean I know you have BOATLOADS of Vacor but to handpick a full game set, that is really something. I can't pick a favorite here, I look at the Spaghetti shooter and that's my favorite, but then there is something so satisfying about cullet with matching marbles, the dramatic colors of the spinning top and base, I feel like a squirrel trying to cross the road lol, which one do I look at? I suppose for collecting strictly Akro Agate for 20 years, these new additions are especially exciting for me. Thank you The Nickel Guy, Merry Christmas to you and to all here. This was fun and I'm glad I had the opportunity to participate in this Christmas Exchange.

Another Great one from Stephen ::

I drove my wife crazy this afternoon looking for our old camcorder, lol

It has a literal heart

I recently won an auction and these 14 Vitro marbles were in the lot. I believe they might be Tiger Eye Type 3 and range from 21/32 to 3/4 in diameter. The yellow pole is nice and round but some of the purple poles are kind of small and curved. They are all very nice but there may be a light fracture on one or two.

I have a Pelt almost exactly like that.

Since a large percentage of WVS posted here turn out to be Alleys I separate those as time goes by. Having those sorted and stacked. It kind of gets easier to spot the ones that aren’t. And I said kinda. My Wife promised I’d be getting THE BOOK for my birthday present or for Christmas. It’ll be better then my 2 front teeth 🔥 RAR

Finally. Friday...

Quiet ! I’m watching Young Sheldon and he ironically was just talking about the number 42. 🤪🔥 RAR

Don’t have great Pelts but here’s a few

Size is .61

Imitation CAC, the cuts are all wrong, it's a contemporary attempt at a CAC IMO

With all those tight "rib bones" in pic's 4 and 6 it could be a Veiligglas wirepull.

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.

Jabo Classic with a Belly Button 🔥 RAR

Here’s my line up. 3 inch contemporary and a 3 1/4 crystal ball🔥 RAR

Thank you BOB !!

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

Merry Christmas !

Oh boy disco005 !!! You are so kind. I'll be the first here to report that a cool package was delivered today. I looked like Ralphie tearing into that box like it was an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! Put your sunglasses on so you don't hurt your eyes with these greenish wispy 21/32" marbles loaded with sparkling aventurine. I don't know what they are yet but they are . . . Awesome I am informed that these are Marble King Aventurine. Then there is this cool cullet. It is turquoise and orange stripes and of pretty good size. I am told this is an Akro Agate Cullet and it is so groovy. But I was super surprised to find a set of Akro Agate Snakes. Yellow, Blue, White, Green, Orange and . . . RED! What? A red Akro Agate Snake! Of course all of them are great examples but I am a lucky dawg to have disco005 as my trading partner. Thank you so much and Merry Christmas to you and all the fine people on Marble Connection Forum. I never even thought I'd see a red snake in my hand let alone HAVE ONE. Wowee!

Vitro Whitie - here are a couple pics of others.

They're in the West Virginia Swirls book as St. Marys Alleys. Not rare, but not as plentiful as the similar Alleys with red swirls on a blue base.

Pelt Blue Surfer, i have closeups if you want those, i have already posted that marble a thousand times though. Here's a closeup so you can see fine silver av. not pinpricks or hits, all av. real heavy in the blue ribbons. A few dimples but all as mades.

Sony handycam (camcorder) but it takes great still pictures to. i use it for all my pictures, has a killer macro on it. here's a closeup of some av on a pelt zebra, 5/8th's marble, this one has green, blue and silver av.

OK--i just have too many--LOL. Marble--On!!

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Years back, Ron Shaw (RIP) and I used the term Vitro Cloudies for these. This is picture that we posted.

The marbles are all dug Heaton in this display. I used some Akroware to hold a bit of the excess.

These are probably my favorite type of Akro🔥 RAR

Love these videos . Im glad he tells how damage really knocks the value down . Condition Condition Condition..... As always thanks for the videos. Awesome to watch Bob grade a marble