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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

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.

Christmas!

One is contemporary.

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☺️

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

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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.

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.

Pelt rainbo x2. Love em Regular rainbo @Wolf

Day 2: Two Turtle Doves ( Vacor Turtles )

I don't know, I'd pass on that marble even if it was free, without the junk in it, but with the junk I'd give a buck for it. Just because it's different.

Maybe a RW🔥 RAR

Looks like a cataract on your cat's eye!

I only have a few handmades, I'm certainly far from an expert on them, but I've never seen this, so cool!

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!