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One is minty, the other one has a chip from playing.

I chased and found some when I wasn't looking. Don't know how I'm getting underlines in this post.

Not even considering a MAC. Got it back today. Think everything is working.

Nice pics, Ron. I just bought one of those pink and blue ones for my Alley collection. I also took a few pics while Bobby and Linda and Paul and I were taking at look at what's left of Alley. I guess by now it's all bulldozed down and scooped up. I have pictures from 3 different visits to the site, each one horrifically worse than the first. When you first took Weldon and me to the site I didn't take pics. i'm sorry for that now as the building was still standing at that time.

Thanks Ron. You must be using the photo host built into this site. I'm still using the old one I started with back in the ninetys. Ranchoweb lets me post all I want to.

Now for the special marbles that were treated by David Griffie or Linda Simmons. I liked to call them Griffed or Simmonsed. Some have frit, some lutz frit in larger pieces, some lutz mist, some lutz ribbons, and some colorized mica.

Ron Shepherd spent a lot of time with him. He might know. I did not hear Mr. Alley talk about when the book would be out.

Box 5: row 1 has colorized mica sprinkled on it. Our "West Virginian" run is very colorful and has a lot of families.

Box 3 Box 4: row 7 is large "Bud Platinums" and row 8 is "Sophisticated Lady".

I finished sorting families last night and took time to make 5 boxes of keepers for me and 5 for Joseph. This is most of the families in the West Virginian run, but not all. I have not photographed the lutz marbles yet and there are many.Box 2: row 2 is "LIL RAY", row 3 and 4 are Griff's sprinkles, row 8 is small Bud PlatinumsBox 1 has a lot of the translucent based marbles in it

You even caught the elusive Dave Akers in that last one. I have pics of everyone working in the last two Buddies runs and when I start editing, Dave is not in them. He's one of the best workers so how come I don't catch him with the camera? The group picture is the only one I got of him.

Griff and Linda Simmons did all the sprinkling of frit, lutz, or other sprinkles on the marbles. Here is David Griffie and Linda Simmons.

Mr. Aley taking a photo of some marbles he was helping to make.

I seem to be the only one posting about the marbles. I don't think anybody knows that Lawrence E. Alley III, grandson of L. E. Alley the owner of Alley Agate came to our run and took part as a worker. His cousin Frank Sellers had been trying to get his to come for a long time. Mr. Alley helped do all the work that the rest of us did. He is writing a book about his father and his grandfather and he wanted to write about his experience with marbles. He told us he hadn't been in a marble factory since he was a little boy. He seemed to enjoy everything about it. He will be writing a chapter about his experience at Sammy's Mountain Marbles Lawrence E. Alley III and Dave Mcullough.

Griff sprinkled a lot of marbles in this run called "The West Virginians". Here are a few.

This marble is named "Lil Ray". It is named for Bobby Newman's grandson.Pink and blue with black aventurine ribbons.

And one more. Pink, blue, yellow, and black ribbons in this one.

Another with the same base glass. Blue, yellow, and black ribbons

The first base glass we used looked opalescent. It was translucent and it made a nice base glass for a lot of different marbles. (Not all pictured here) this one has pink and blue ribbons along with the black.

This marble was made using Bud Platinum bottles. It worked. I forget how many cases were used to get this blue color.

This is the "Baby Fox". Colors in the marble are not spectacular, but the silver specks are .999 fine silver.

Had time to do a few pics last night. This one is almost golden rebel colors. It's salmon, yellow, and black aventurine.

They certainly are. It's not about the money.