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Another shout out to the York Nebraska marble museum and cateye1212 on ebay! Scored these two awesome deep amber pinch pontil Yasudas. One of them even has some nice teal inclusions!

Charlie and I have been wanting this for some time now and we got on ebay and we can't wait till it comes in. Just so awesome! I'm excited very excited. We love it! Have a blessed day. GOD IS SO SO GOOD!!!🙏✝️🙏

Kim here. Favorites are JABO/DAS and more recently NLG. Have only been collecting about two years. I go to a lot of estate sales so have quite a bit of "everything"... or they might be nothing. Time & ID videos will tell🤭. This group has been super helpful... so glad I found you.

It's Akro Friday ❤️

1.25" Leighton "Horizontal"

1.25"+ Leighton "Navarre"

Happy Saturday!

newbies.

Vitro biscuit and red eye gravy

Whisplers, yes, relative of Master. I wanted to open this thread to try to curb a bit this (which I still notice) confusion that can arise with Masters Below I will show a description of these, opaque and transparent. I don't have many, but enough to give the idea. These marbles generally range in size from 9/16 to 1 inch, maybe more My simplest and quickest advice, and in my opinion the most effective for identifying these whispering marbles, is that many, if not most, have or can have a very clear glass but very, very bubbly, which Masters generally do not have. Then, over time, with a bit of patience, you will gain experience and you will be able to notice some differences with Master marbles even in the seams. To begin with, I will show a text related to these, both opaque and transparent, followed by some marbles "A Vintage Whispler marble, sometimes known as a European Fat-Core marble. This opaque type is harder to find than the transparent variety. Detailed blending and strata combine with sophisticated opaque colours for plenty of interest and impact. Whisplers are a mysterious vintage marble class, distributed in England during the 1950's and 60's by British firms including Irene Manufacturing Company, Chad Valley Games, H.P. Gibson and Co. and T.S.L. Products, England. They are readily recognised as a mainstay of many nostalgic and happy marble memories. Appreciated for an amorphous, flowing character, they are often galactic in style with intricate organic striations. The opaque varieties have an intense character, with detailed blending of beautiful tertiaries in a creamy, earthy and often moody palette - unlike the more common transparent base Whisplers which range from clear and intense to cloudy, misty and filamentous; with wispy vanes, and delightful floating clouds of tiny bubbles. They can sometimes resemble the American 'Master' marbles due to a similar manufacturing process."

Those Snakes are awesome! And just in case it has not been said enough, Akros are super cool!

A bit of swirl and Master love

I have collected 3 very limited prints recently. Artist name is Karen Day. I would imagine she has been here on the forum and knows many of you oldtimers. One of these smaller ones in a 5/7 frame with the black matte is one of six 1/6. The other smaller one is three of six 3/6 and the large one in an 8x10 frame is not numbered as much as I can see but signed on the back of the matte. I am a fan now! All are signed in hand. I framed them up today and hung them up. I can identify most of the marbles. Thanks for looking.

Akro, A Yellow cork on a transparent Orange base! The only one I have, and the only one I've seen, pretty neat.

A couple of mine ::

I like those oxblood Akro dishes, etc.

A study in blues on this Pelt Tuesday

Hi,Alta Wow, I'd love to see these two in hand. In my opinion these are two Masters The second one is nice, type a helmet, I would like to have it😊 I will show some pictures of the second kind, Master Whisplers, considered relatives of Master, precisely because of their similar characteristics. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell them apart, precisely because of their similarity. However, in my opinion, the joints of Master are more pronounced, deep, and clear, so clean, as well as having glass that is much less bubbly and sparkling, in summary. As I mentioned, whisplers in general show (as you can see in the images above) an exaggerated amount of bubbles that the Masters do not have. Then, there might be the exception where in some cases they could be indistinguishable from each other, especially when viewed on a monitor, but generally they can be distinguished. I repeat, the key point for the distinction is the bubbles, in transparent whispers, although it is not an absolute rule. Less sharp and clean seams in the matte ones, compared to Master As for the color palette, I wouldn’t pay much attention to this, as both types of marbles have the same earthy colors. Now, I am not an expert on the matter, I just wanted to give my personal impression on it to be helpful, and I hope it is appreciated. Thanks again to everyone for your attention!

Here's an unusual one..

Tommy has sucked it up and volunteered to become a Moderator. Please welcome him with open arms and give him the same respect that you give to @bumblebee, @Steph @Chad G.—little ole me and @Melissa. We need the help sooner than later and I am happy to welcome Tommy—He deserves it for sure. Marble—On Tommy!!

Wow- lots of nice marbles! Love looking at them all. Here is one of mine. It's a naked ribbon core with a nice thin ribbon coming in at 11/16 inch (17.5mm). It looks like 2 different marbles when you look at each side of the ribbon. I can't believe how they got such a difference in such a thin ribbon. Excellent craftsmanship!

It's a reddish-orange. But it turns more to red Here is the red, as it appears..

12 on the board. Same Cane Plus 4 other bangers.

Woo hoo!! It's an Akro party ❤️ I especially like that bigger size Black and White in the upper right.

9/16" to 1-7/16" . I really would like to get my hands on a nicer horizontal Navarre. There was a member years back that had a nice handful, not sure if he's still around

My version (😥) also 1-1/4”

I found some interesting ones here in the SF Bay area, including a couple of color schemes not mentioned in the video. The first one appears to be orange glass with jelly red strips encased in clear. The last pic is taken under water to show the clear encasing. The second one is Orange on an opaque black. No transparency at all. The third one is white on the transparent blue, but the white is clearly encased in the transparent, not on the surface. The forth one is a pair of the white on transparent green that you mentioned. The fifth one is a really wonky brown on opaque white. It was with a group of normal looking bombers, but it slipped through QC somehow! Have you seen any like these before @stephenb?

X2, Peltier Rainbo

Dedicato a tutte le ragazze di MC Sono o non sono un cavaliere? 😄 🎧 grande-1_ujpD0An9.mp4 originale_HwlAeeqZ.mp4

Hey all! I’m new here! I’m a lover of antiques, a picker and a diver lol. My dad and I scavenge old dumps and landfills, someone threw these away and I don’t know enough about marbles-YET. To determine whether or not these are worth anything. So here I am, nice to meet you all and Thank you in advance!

Thank you so much... the learning curve on marbles is huge and I appreciate the comments and help!

I think it belongs to the 'yellow jacket' family

Akro

If you got these from Canada as well then not much doubt they are Wisplers.

I don't know if anyone here has discovered these yet, but they are tremendous videos. They are done by Jeff Baker and Cody Kemph as "Keepers of the Marbles". So far it's a 5 part deep dive into Onionskins with tons of great info, clearly explained. And the marbles! The marbles are insane! A must watch. Highly recommended.

IDK some of the mag pictures look suspicious to me, be careful Brother, almost to good to be true, never forget, there is a reason you are questioning ??

Alley made the figurines i think ?? Nice Akroware BTW LINK :: https://www.facebook.com/Alley.Agate/posts/l-e-alley-glass-animal-figurines-and-l-e-smith-copies-update-jan-2020-print-thes/2652134168343756/

Swirls

More..

Ottimo, Chad Yes, the third vortex of Alta is fabulous 💪 Another jumbo

really liking the orangish swirl, well i guess i like em all but i have an affinity for that one

Thanks! Here are a few more.

The oldest Germans typically are believed to be ground/faceted pontils. Some are done so well = barely visible. It's always wise to closely inspect in hand with a loupe if possible. You can only tell so much from a picture on a screen. But yes there is a lot to learn, and a lot of different opinions when it comes to names/definitions so I take most with a grain of salt

Wow... good marble rescue

The last pic of transitionals is interesting. There were a couple guys (years ago) that had put together some nice collections of those particular opaque types.

Some of the marbles from a recent local Facebook buy. A nice mix of vintage and transitional/ hand gathered goodness...

Thank you everyone, im honored to have been chosen to help out the marble community that has given me my passion for marbles, Wishing good marble scores to everyone .. Happy sorting

He looks like a contemporary "Popeye" by Mark Christensen. Where did you see it? Mark Christensen..