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I collect Fred Wilganowskit look alikes to a lot of those. They are an inexpensive way to have lutz marbles that are made to look almost like antique handmades. If yours are the real thing, I am amazed at how much Fred's look like those.

I don't collect antique marbles, but these are beautiful. Thanks for posting.

That's a lamp you see reflected in the marble. I'm working with a hand held Canon instead of my Nikon on a tri pod. I'm surprised the pics are as good as they with this one. Never tried marble pics before with my canon.

This marble is about 3 inches in diameter. Looking through the lens is a flower garden and the rose is a new flower this year.

I attended Tucson Best Bead and I have 4 new marbles. Two for me and two for Joseph. This one is a Kevin O'Grady. If you know Kevin's work, you know that each year he changes the cap of his marbles. This year (2012) he is using more silver and sparkly blue. all of the cap is not visible from this end. Kevin also changes the millis in his design each year. There are new flowers in the cap. I believe this is the prettiest cap he has done. I love the lattice look the millis are embedded in. Two more views of the cap

Thanks Smitty.

I may have his name misspelled, but it's pronounced the way I spelled it. Does anybody know how I can get in touch with him? Edna

None of the links in this thread work. ??

CAC, Christensen Agate Company

Galen, thank you for helping Rylee. She is our newest "young" member of Texas MCI. She's trying really hard to learn and she's a serious collector.

Rylee, I believe that brown color is not a separate glass but a discoloration caused by a chemical reaction between some of the glass used in that marble. There is no brown glass in it. Thanks Steph for enlarging that pic so I could see it. Look for a lemonade or a limeade or a carnelian oxblood They're all pretty.

One of our members does wood cases Rylee. Jim Garber usually has some for sale at our shows.

Rylee, I've never heard of that combination. There are lemonade oxbloods and that won't be hard to find. There are chocolate oxbloods and they are hard to find. A chocolate lemonade oxblood...... I don't know. I looked at that pic and i still don't know. Edna

Some of the boards still have last year's spring info up without noting the year 2011. I want to clarify the dates especially. Texas Marble Collectors Show begins Wed. April 25, 2012 and goes through the 27, 2012 for in room trading. We all go out to eat together each night, Willie Benoit is in charge of planning the restaurants. The marble show is Saturday April 28, 2012. We are planning a marble tournament for adults that morning and another for children. Both tournaments will take place Saturday morning. Three marble champions will be there to give pointers to participants and to hold the tournaments. Prizes will be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. We will have marble makers making marbles during in room trading and during the show. The hotel allows us to make marbles just outside the back wall of the conference center It is roofed and all structures are concrete or rock - no fire hazard. It is well ventilated as one side is open and the two ends are partially open. West Virginia's Phillip Arthur will be making marbles and he will help visitors make a marble for themselves. Several other marble makers are invited to join Philip and do the same. Possible artists are Greg Hoglin, Gerry Colman, Jayson Massey, Jay Massey, and Kip Maley. Any artists wanting to take part are welcome. The club furnishes propane and oxygen. Artists will bring their equipment with them and the glass they want to work with. The show is at the Wingate by Wyndham Hotel and Williamson Conference Center located just behind the hotel. The address is 1209 N IH-35, Round Rock, Texas. Phone number for the hotel is 512 341 7000. The hotel rate is $84.00 per night. Cut off date for the reduced rate is April 4, 2012. Show coordinators are Carroll Collier and Claudia Buser. Their contact number is 512 751 2945. Tables are reserved when paid. Send payment for tables to Carroll Collier, PO Box 875, Pflugerville, Texas 78691 TMCI members pay $30.00 per table and Non Club Members pay $40.00 per table. Hope to see a lot of you there, Edna Eaton, President TMCI

Those are really pretty!

Mighty big rat!

how far back this section goes? It's 6 years of losses. I've posted this so that my loss doesn't pop up every time I come to MC. Edna

It could be petrified goat poop.

Thanks for the side by side. i tried to do that and couldn't. The surface on mine is smooth, but the texture of the browns looks about the same. Also, using my imagination I think I can see some semblance of a "V" on the lump. mine is not quite round either, but it doesn't have the misshape of the dried plum. I still wonder if it might be a poorer example of the first machine made boro marbles. I imagine most of the good ones ended up in paint cans.

Am I the only one who sees a resemblance to the clay marble, dried plum? Mine is in better shape.

By the way, mine is out of round also and i don't see the "V" on the one in the auction.

Take a look at this one. Could it be one of these? I'd like to place them side and by side and compare. This one is a Vitro Agate. It's one of the first and only run of marbles that Vitro did using borosilicate glass. Vitro was contracted to do this run for industrial purpose marbles. This was dug by a friend of mine at the old Vitro plant and employess verified and told him what it was. They were never run again because the boro gutted the tank and it couldn't be used again. The company contracting the boro marbles was notified and no more were made. I was given this one last fall by a dear friend. He only found about 20 of them and he shared this one with me. The marble in the auction reminded me of this one. Could it be?

That happens Sharon, if you are registered. It was at the bottom under a heading "Reply to this topic"? That's the way it works, but you have to be registered and logged in.

Yes, augurs do originate in the center and can extend all the way to the sides, but don't always. Onyx always have colored transparent glass with a white cork. Spirals have transparent clear class with a colored cork and some have transparent colored glass with a colored cork. The red ones inside red glass are especially pretty as are the transparent violet with yellow corks. I don't agree with the specials post. Having "specials" labeled on the boxes like a name makes me think the company was calling them "specials". Even in the salesman's sample boxes. The ad in the publication might have been marbles they were having a "special sale" on. Keep in mind that kids named a lot of marbles too. "Snakes" and "spirals" may have been the same marble. Weldon called spirals snakes. Of course he wasn't an authority. LOL! Also keep in mind that some names depended on what part of the U.S. you lived in. They were regional.