VTAndrea

Crap, how did I miss that?! I love the green and blue bricks. Need to have one....or two.

That blue looks like turquoise. Would that describe it correctly? Beautiful combinations there.

You sell widows, Duffy???

This is like the good old days when we'd get a hot topic going and lots of contributors. I love it. Hope some others jump in.

Reading this topic is fun. Thanks for all the insights into wheeling and dealing.

Hey Many: I posted pictures of what I've got for sale in the aforementioned buy-sell-trade forum.

So if we go by the advice of stock market gurus, when prices are down, it's a good time to buy, right? So check out the latest marbles I've got on the buy-sell-trade forum. Heh heh, snuck in a plug.

I enjoyed reading all your posts, manylittle. You've had a very interesting life! I think I'd have enjoyed going through your antique store.

I think it's much easier to conceal a fakery on ebay than when you can hold something up to the light in a real store, not to mention the sheer fun of finding something totally unexpected as opposed to purposefully looking through one category on ebay.

One of my favorites:

It's sad what the internet (mostly ebay) has done to antiques shops. I used to love prowling through them locally and whenever I traveled. So many have closed. I miss them!

You can take the values cited in any of Block's books with a shaker full of salt.

Did you buy it, Sami?

Incredibly cool.

Somehow it doesn't look latticinio to me either.

I have 3 or 4 melon balls but haven't been lucky enough to get the large ones.

I remember seeing an auction years ago--either ebay or Running Rabbit--where one of those marbles with the butterfly shape around the pontil (your bottom row, 2nd one from the left) went for over $4000. So yeah, it's probably rare as well as beautiful.

Another buy from gb.antik was this Blue Cloud with a lovely spray of color inside, almost like a flower.

I got this green cloud type marble years ago when Gerhard Baz started selling on ebay. I suppose it's dug, I never asked. But it's a beauty, with red spots on the outside and bubbles in the core. It's not rough like it appears. I think I shot the photo with the marble in water. Les Jones wanted to buy it from me, so it must be an unusual type.

Akron (sorry I can't remember your actual name): That vase is simply stunning! My roses would look beautiful in it.....

OMG, Hansel, I surely wouldn't want to be the reason for your demise! Thanks for the chuckle. I agree with your reason for saying "no thanks". Akronmarbles doesn't surface very often, but maybe someone will suggest this worthy project to him.

Hansel, this discussion points up the fact that there is so much conflicting information in the hobby. I used to urge Les Jones to write a book based on what he'd learned in his many years of collecting but alas, he had that unfortunate accident years ago. Then I started bugging Alan Basinet to write a book.....guess he's up in Marble Heaven with Great Marbles Jones. How about YOU? Is there a book in you? And PS, I still love the Greiner/Leighton marble I got at a marble show quite a few years ago that was actually yours. Can't remember who was selling it for you.

I have an antique print tray found in an antiques shop that held many marbles. I set it on top of a cabinet I was using for marble photography supplies and always meant to get a plexiglass top made for it. Now that I've sold most of the marbles it held, I'll be putting it out in a garage sale. Finding the perfect display case for marbles is a lucky thing indeed.

Didn't I see this marble on ebay recently? Kept watching it but it was so unfamiliar to me, I didn't dare bid.

It's the Blue Bee!! Et c'est à moi!!!