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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 !!!! 🙏⚓️♥️

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.

Marble King 😍 Enjoy 😁

Peltier ♥️ Enjoy the pictures 😁

I missed Monday. Playing catch up!

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

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 🥰

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

Jackson ✌🏻

Alley 🔥

CAC 💪🏻

Master Marbles ✨️ Awsome Marbles 😁 Enjoy the pictures

Thanks Art. Here are some good pics now that I’m home. Superboy is .9 and the Alley with AV is .865. Nice score on a very hot and humid day! Typical weather here in VA!

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?

A thought or two come to mind but .5"? That would make it a peewee, very small. Are you sure on that size? Because size affects the ID.

Peltiers are still my favorite and Vitro a close second.

What do you say ,am I missing one color for the Blackies and do you think the middle white Blackie color yellow an ending or starting color or is it a Hybrid? starting right from left red, lavender, green, yellow, blue, teal, and white

Mrs Va Marbles and my backside made a cameo in the video so we got a laugh. Saw Nickel Guy too! All good. Love it.

Do they UV Pop🔥 RAR

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

No - possibly a "tweener" but I'm leaning towards a nice Rainbo.

Purple slag. The pink is an effect of the white under the purple glass.

Around ⅝"

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

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So now we are certain there were 3 different makers of wirepulls Japanese, Germany, and Dutch? Would love to see more definitive proof of Hopf ones

The multi, multi top left is a new marble just really liked that one. Right one is a vitro. Some others in the pic Tiger/Wasp, bullet mold, 2 Heaton dragons blood, Vitro shooter and Vitro FC, couple of Alleys and my fav CAC flame and Blue Green Raven (on the stand).

Steal learning what do I have here.. Has flakes sheared off but I keep all the damaged ones for me

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

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 !!!

There’s no ID name attached to this one. It’s a nice Pelt Rainbo with nice cruddy base glass and killer ribbon CC🔥 CC…Color Combo. Kind of like RW RAR

Very nice collection and pics as well. Always great to see other people's collections. Thank you for sharing!!

Champions 🏆