sissydear

Peltier Mansions

they are pretty!

thanks Ann. I knew about those. There are some Akros found at Akro that are similar to those, but not exactly the colors. I was wondering about some others I want to post when I have time. Some Akro patches that I inherited from Randy look very Vitro. I remember disagreeing with Ron Shepherd some time back about the ID of a marble. He said Akro. I said Vitro. Then I got to a box of Randy's marbles that look Vitro but they are labeled Akro. I'd like to share those. I think Ron Shepherd is correct. (Why did I ever doubt that?"

I want to see what those patches look like.

The Julie A. Jones mystery is solved.

I'm not sure where that ring is drawn or what you see. I see a marble with a thin layer of clear glass near the bottom. I also see that ring drawn around the shadow of the marble on the bottom part of the marble pic. I do not see an annealing fracture and I do know what they look like.

Someone posted on my pic of Berry Pinks that they had dug some at Paden City.

I'm a trained classifier too. (Biology). They call us lumpers or splitters. I tend toward the "lumper" end. The splitters separate minute details. The lumper's generalize.

Just depends on who wants it and how bad they want it. Nice corks, Bill.

I've never seen it mentioned in Texas except on marble sites on the internet.

That one on the right could be called a snake. Ann is right that collectors had their own names. The one on the right has a surface cork that wraps around like a snake and little boys would call it that. It also can be called a "tight line" cork because it wraps around the marble so many times. Pretty one!

I have some I'd sell for less than half price.

My goodness, they are Alley Agates.

I played once in Hannibal, MO. I was in my 50's and John Hamon Miller and Jack Noonan always had a marble tournament as part of the Huck Finn Marble Show. I didn't want to play cause I had never played before. I got drafted like the Army. We were playing poison. I had beginners luck on the first 3 holes. I shot like a Rolley Hole professional marble shooter. All the spectators were chanting "Whoop! Whoop! for me. they were also shouting "Ringer" cause they thought I was lying about never having played before. Then beginners luck ran out. I couldn't even shoot the marble after those first 3 holes. I ended up last . I couldn't get the marble to leave my hand farther than 3 inches out of my fingers. I was a flop.

Can't believe I did that. Of course David Griffie was there too. And Linda and Paul Simmons and a new friend Bobby made Terri Wildt.

Bobby's family did not attend the run. the closest folks to him there were Dave McCullough, Dennis and Irma Taylor, Eddie Garner, Edna Eaton, Ed Parsons, Richard McKnight, Jimmy Storsberg. Hope I haven't left anybody out.

beautiful Bert!

Actually, I think there has been another run after ours. Ed Parsons did one and I think Burt Wilkins has one too.

Bobby's Bricks Coyote Bob Made from broken bits of "ruby glass" Sarah's Sunshine These are some of the last run of marbles made by Dave McCullough, "Ol Dawgs".

Nice to be able to post pictures here again. I had given up.

A Cal Sugita contemp with UV glass

Those are clay marbles that I posted.

Well, I didn't do any of that and it worked. Hurrah for Lou!

I am still affected and I don't know what a browser cache is, much less how to clear it. Or a hard refresh on the posting screen.