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This was a great year for finding marbles!

A few Alleys found through the years

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

This cold weather has me feeling blue☺️

"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.

A cool blue & green corckscrew 5/8”

Way too much. Those were going for 35 each not long ago. I've seen them hit 80+ lately and I wouldn't pay that but 225 seems way too high. Prices are nuts these days though.

This is an Alley Opal Lady. A sought after marble by collectors.

Alley bacon

G'day folks! Here is a nice example of a Akro agate corkscrew lifesaver, it measures 20mm. Cheers

Had this, just in case...

He finally got me

Your RAR reminded me of a great time years ago. We had a group, Ron Shepherd (RIP), Bill McCaleb(RIP), Nola Morgan, Dave Becker and I called "RARS". It stood for "Rare Alley Recovery Squad. It was so much fun competing at shows to see who could find the rarest Alley. The rule we followed was, If you set it down and your fingers are not touching the marble it was up for grabs. So many times, one of us would look at a marble but were not quite sure and put it back. Ron eagle eye Shepherd would have it in his hand, and it was sold. It was so much fun when we all were in a room at the same time, like chickens picking feed. Sure do miss them days and those guys. Anyhow, many of those marbles came from back in that time period.

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

....Snakeskin alley

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

Hello! I'm so so excited to find this post and see your research and others talking about it. Naoyuki Seike is actually my Great Grandfather! If you'd like would be very happy to put you in contact with my father and he can maybe share more information with you. Naoyuki's Daughter (and my grandmother), Junko followed in his inventor path and also worked for Zojirushi and had many patents related to cooking and food science.

This one got some character

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

Polymers Dave Becker made for me, flame type, all with av in them. Smore

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...

@SequoiaBET So are all Transitionals actually Slags?

It's always nice to watch these videos. Thank you!

Last one I bought was $20.oo, it was a while back but 225 is ridiculous, that's almost a friggin car payment. They're a little HTF but not that hard.

I'd be looking at Hurricane.

Purple theme today

No pistachio, no uv. still Alley IMO

OH YEAH ! Game on ! Time to knuckle down. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎄🎅 RAR

Some more before I head off to Mississippi... Something to keep you cool on this warm Christmas day...

No MFC reds. They kept meticulous records of their products and red is never mentioned in their inventory of marbles.