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Mike, these are sort of a custard color, not white, not yellow, but more beige.

I'll bet it is fumed. Most of mine are. He used to be known as "fumalicious".

Just another wonderful variation I suppose. The marbles pictured were all from the 3rd experimental run before doing the first investor run. We ran marbles fronm 6:00 this morning until....... I don't know if they are still running. I left at 9:30 tonight and they had a lot of glass to go. It takes longer to make 5/8th marbles than 3/4 th inch marbles. (Because you have to make more marbles to use up all of your glass.) The marbles will be divided tomorrow and all of us will take our share and go about our business. I do have two pics of the first ones made today and i'll post those. All other pics will have to wait until we have our marbles. These are fun. When making machinemade marbles, some eggs and footballs always get made. I have always thrown mine away. I will be keeping mine this time. They are beautiful and will look really pretty in a bowl. I have never been in a run before that had such wide ribbons of lutz. These are keepers. These marbles all have lutz, some have wide ribbons, some have what Griff calls "Pixie sticks". Hand made marble artists would call them "stringers". Some have a lutz mist. Some of each are shown here. I'm sure others will post some pics when they get home with their marbles. I'm going on to the Sistersville Marble Festival so I may have time to sort and do pics before I go home.

Sometime back I commissioned Julia Powell to paint a marble showing our hometown boy Clint Cannon competing in the bronc ride. Clint is a professional rodeo cowboy. It took a while to find just the right pic for Julia to paint. She likes the face to be in profile. I finally got a pic that was just right and delivered it to Julia in August. Julia had to paint 5 marbles to get two good ones. She first tried 3+ inch Sammy Hogue marbles. They were beautiful but one exploded in the kiln. Julia uses oil based paints that have to be fired on. They become part of the glass marble. The other one cracked. This is the one that cracked. She gave it to me and I think if I keep it in my marble cabinet perhaps without handling it won't crack into many pieces. You can see the large crack in this view. On the back of the marble I had her paint the Methodist cross and "God Bless Our Cowboy". Clint attends Waller UMC. Julia painted 2 and got nothing so started over. She dropped down to Sammy Hogue 2 inch marbles. One survived the kiln and one cracked. This is a good one. And the back of the good marble Julia had to paint a 5th marble to get two good ones. Maybe this will help you understand why the marbles are expensive and how much work can go into just one order.

I am in West Virginia and a group of friends are making marbles tomorrow at Sammy Hogue's place. Thought I would show you some that came off the rollers 3 days ago. Sammy had some help from Eddie and Barney Seese and Dave McCullough was consulting. I think they're beautiful. They are 5/8th inch. These by the way are not the prettiest because I happen to like the ones with sprinkles and i think they are the prettiest. Maybe I'll buy some of them tomorrow.

Gerald Witcher knows Marblel Kings.

good for you!

Those are pretty marbles, marboman. you did good! Not worried about the chocolate remark. Just thought Steph might not want to take credit for saying something she didn't say.

Galen dear ( I consider using that tern "dear" with someone you barely know extremely offensive.) Knock it off. Why don't you let it go too, especially your use of the term dear with me. . You are the one who keeps getting defensive. Yes, Duffy is a friend, but I'm not defending him. He can defend himself. I read that first sentence and i still feel he is responding to your remark. Of course that's just MHO. As for keeping remarks about Morphy's, I don't have any. I don't collect those marbles (CAC's) but I do respect Duffy's opinion as it related to yours and I feel he has every right to his opinion just as you have every right to yours and I have every right to mine.

does anyone else feel that this is way too many marbles to have in one auction? Nice for buyers but will the prices realized be anywhere near as much as they could be with a smaller auction. I would think an auction with this many CACs would totally screw the sellers. Just my opinion. I thought Duffy was responnding to this remark. He never named anybody. Isn't responding to a remark on topic. I responded to Galen's remark, Was Galen on topic?

I said "chocolate something". Maybe it should be "chocolate strawberries" or chocolate red zebra. At any rate it looks chocolate something.

Members Posted Yesterday, 08:03 PM Doubting very much you will be bidding on a Morphy auction Duffy so my questions obviously were not for you. So other than just trying to slam me why not stick to posts that have something to do with you. It is getting rather old. Can't you do some positive posts like give some IDs or help a newbie now and then. Seems half the posts you do make are just attempts to take a shot at me. Time to grow up and follow the little line at the bottom of your posts. You are a big boy, how about acting like one. Who is slamming whom? Is this a criticism of Duffy's financial status? He seems very helpful to me, i've never noticed rudeness directed at me from Duiffy and he's always been helpful to me. If you have a personal problem with Duffy, please do it with PM's. Don't flash your worst side for all of us to read. Thank youi.

Looks like it should be a "chocolate something"

JABO bought this cullet from the jobber. There are still piles of it at the old Champion Agate factory. I bought some in Arkansas. The cullet seller sold it everywhere to rock shops. That's where i got the first piece I bought and gave to a marble make in Missourir. I saw it last year in Tennessee at the place where the guys make marbles out of rocks and glass.This is Fenton Burmese glass. It is yellow and when reheated turns pink. The Fenton pieces were yellow and pink and they got that pink by hitting the areas they wanted pink with more heat. It's all over the US.

Looks like Fenton Burmese glass cullet. It used to be readily available from the cullet dealer that bought and sold Fenton cullet. Fenton no longer mades glass in the US, brings everything in from China.

Long live the U.S.A. Akro Agate Mike Barton Gerry Colman David Salazar Robert L. Hamon Sammy Hogue Peltier Marble King Boyd Miller Kris Parke Peltier Charles Gibson Steve Davis

Biscuits and Red Eye Gravy Other members of the Pea Family

Not biscuits and red eye gravy. I think those are Akro patches. Guess they could be Master patches.

Duffy, I bought one of those in Sistersville 3 years ago.

Since they are about 3/4 inch here are some good guess. This one is Joe Lovell from Texas. Fred Wilganowski from Texas. Fred has sold marbles all over the U.S. Phil McGlothlin I have more marbles that look like yours, but no pics. I'll try to find time to do pics and post for you.

No sigs? they look like Hamon family to me, but everyone signs except Sonny Miller. They could be students of the Hamon family. John Hamon Miller taught a lot of folks. Some of them look like Phil McGlothlin to me, but he signed MAC. He's been deceased a long time. They are pretty.

Beautiful Simpson!

That's pretty! Never seen one like that.

Vitro Agate corals Vitro Agate patch - hard to find Another patch tri lite patch

Ditto Bocci. RIP Mike Petura. Wish I had more of his work.