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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.

I'd call it Alley.

I can ship to UK but the price will be different than what the site shows. Contact me about it before purchase and I'll figure it up for you. Thank you all! I'm loading up the truck back seat every day with packages to take to the post office. You won't be disappointed in this book, I assure you!

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!

Friday Flea Market haul!

my order goes in tomorrow, I can taste it now

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!!

Thanks so much for all the help the last few days. I really do appreciate it!! Gotta few of these floating around. Never been able to pin them down?

This is the one @7/8" that my wife found in the dryer---oooops--check those pockets people. Marble--On!!

I am a bit surprised at no responses here. Yes, some weird color is involved but I am not afraid to be called out if this one is not an Alley Agate. I apreciate all opinions and hope to see some more. @cheese is busy wrapping packages and going to the Post Office with the new book that is being sold that Eddie and Kim Winningham along with Chuck produced. Maybe @cheese will check in for a break from the hastle? Marble--On!!

I don’t see a cork

I recommend using quality UV safety glasses when using 365 nm flashlights.

tough time on these 3/4 are transparent base front left is not Try trouble with these as well front left is maybe a lazy cork front right is similar to a marble in the other group

Art has this one right. slag first pic swirl 2nd pic. Unknown maker. Good ole WV swirl box!

WV Swirl, lol. Best place for it IMO.

Transparent Rainbow IMO. Have a few of these. Always think they should have a name like Lemon Drop or something catchy but I believe these are just nice Bo’s

This is a fun one. We’ll see what others think. I’m either right on this one or totally way off the mark 🔥 RAR

That is a Tweener. Those are the marbles that where made between the NLR time period that then started Pelt Rainbos🔥 RAR

One vote for Peltier.

Agree x2, Alox

Size is around ⅝" on this marble. Pretty Bubbly within the transparent green.

Kokomo didn’t make patches. But here we go. If they did it would be great to any example pics. 🔥 RAR

I would Go RW based on the 3rd pic what I see at the top of the marble and overall pattern.

I lean RW on the majority of them. Top left looks more Alley.

This is still from that same group of marbles I purchased a couple weeks ago. This group has 80 percent Peltier Marbles so far. Some are not the standard easy to identify Rainbo. I appreciate any help. Best, Trent

This is a challenging marble to photo but I got some good light. Anyone know who made this one? 45/64” .7

Size is 21/32" with this marble. I used 2 different background colors while taking the pictures of this marble. You can see the major difference that the background coloring can have on your photographs.

Ordered my copy this morning!!

I haven't waited for a book since the last dark tower book ...lol. can't wait

I believe this is a Heaton but I know they didn’t make many over 5/8”. This one is 21/32”. What do you all think?

These four 5/8th ish marbles are probably as old as me at least, and they are eye catching pretty but I have no idea who made them. Obviously from the same batch of glass combination. Among my favorites in a recent purchase as far as eye appeal goes, value, I really don't care but would like to know who made them and if they have a name, I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

Size on this guy is 19/32"

That view reminds me of Treebeard from Lord of the Rings...

Gorgeous

Nice marble indeed...

Nice group x3

Dang it🔥 RAR

Maybe an Alley Dragon🔥 RAR

It’s not a Jabo. Looks Vintage to me. We’ll see what WVS Scientist have to say🔥 RAR

Agree

Here is a pic that I saved from years ago.

Vintage manufacturers didn't have a big barrel of "aventurine" that they chose to add rarely - or at all. Fun fact: "Aventurine" is a stone. A mineral. Quartz to be specific. There is no quartz in glass marbles.

Does anybody know what this Marble is? It has me stumped.

Cool, video worked for me. I can see the sparkle. More often than not, it's incidental in marbles and some people collect examples based on eye appeal alone (similar to examples with incidental debris, oven brick, large bubbles, "UV POP"list goes on and on.)

This one has a nice pink tone in it, ot sure of maker, if I had ti guess I'd say Vitro. Size is .62 Any help is appreciated as always!!

Really cool with the pink. Condition looks spectacular.

I have heard that its harder to find them with the darker base glass

Looks pretty cool. Makes me think polar bear at first sight but im not well versed in these yet.