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This was a great year for finding marbles!

A few Alleys found through the years

Mine has more white

This cold weather has me feeling blue☺️

"Superboy" 0,70

perils of the hobby

Japanese

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

Flicker has a good memory. There were Hurricanes that were packaged for Europe with the name Africa on the header. Here are two pics of the Don Juan bag (Netherlands) and a very rare Mega bag with the Africa name that "slipped through" the Guadalajara "checkpoint" that Pete was able to get prior to the 2003 time frame when I bought it from him.

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.

It's a Tweener🔥 RAR

A slag is defined as any transparent base colored marble (Amber, purple, green, red, etc... ) with opaque white running through it, weather hand gathered or machine made. A transitional is a different animal IMO, some are slag like and some are made of 2 opaque colors, just my opinion.

Another RP is Ro Purser, a very well known artist, but I don't know what his signature is like.

Alley- Tater bugs

I'd be looking at Hurricane.

Beautiful. Sadly I have not read most of my books. One of my projects is to try to distill the thousands down into a mere five bookshelves of favorites. The attic is full of boxes. Every now and then I pull a box out, choose a couple of books to save, and take the rest to a secondhand store. I adore old textbooks. And old do-it-yourself books. And cookbooks. And mid-1900's fiction with colorful covers. Mostly I like the looks of them. But I have a few classics that I actually like to read and re-read.

Based on pics 1 and 2, I see a wonky Akro Corkscrew. Don’t really see a CAC, but I do see why some do. Either way, it’s unique! Thanks for sharing!

i see 4 colors with some overlapping

4 IMHO.

Day 5: 💍💍💍💍💍 “Day 5: Five Golden Rings"

Some Oxblood on this Sunday before New Years.

Joe Rice- snow lobes 1 -5/8

X2, Game marble that spun out on the rollers

Shopping today and ran across this… Merry Christmas!!

Very nice sunflower great looking mib!