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Unnamed marble. I love the ones in champagne glass with green aventurine and oxblood. These are unnamed, almost peewees, and they have lutz. Also unnamed from Friendship run in 2009. It's one of my favorites and very rare, I got enough to fill my keeper box with 7. I didn't give away any of this one. This marble was named by Ed Parsons. It's called Edna Ross. Good days and fun times! That's Steve Pletcher standing and seated are Weldon, Edna, and Ed Parsons.

Did you not keep some or you just haven't looked at yours in a while?

"Hod" named for Howard Powell Woo hoo! No distortion with the Nikon. Thanks for the help.

"Mylee" named for David McCullough's granddaughter.

I did these pics with my Nikon D60. I'm checking for distortion of the image. No distortion so I am convinced it's the camera. When I have time, i'll take it back to the store and show them what's happening. This marble is named "Edith Irene" . It's named for the mom of Ron Shepherd.

Bob and Honeybern: thanks for the help!

My son says it's the camera lens causing the distortion. He thinks the camera wasn't made to get as close to the marbles as I did, even though it's in focus. I'm going to ask the camera store and if that's what is wrong, I'll use it for other pics and do my marbles with the Nikon.

Golden Flamenco Here's a marble you may never have seen. I never saw it for sale on ebay. It is very scarce. My share of this one was 7 marbles. I never gave any of this one away and the other investors may have kept all of theirs too. There were even fewer of this marble without the lutz.

I am thinking it's the camera causing the distortion. The marbles are out of round before I begin to resize. I used the photoshop with the Kodak and the Nikon pics and did not get distortion. I'm doing something wrong with the camera. (I think)

I didn't keep any footballs. Sent them to Andy Davis to become tops. My two other cameras never did this distortion. I'm thinking it may be some setting that is off.

Thank you for your patience. I am still seeing the distortion of the round shape. Any ideas?

Charleston resized. I think this is better. Blue Tango resized Blue Tango resized. I can see the gold lutz much better here so i think I have the sizing down better.

Golden Blue Tango Blue Tango

The rest of the marbles were named for dances in keeping with the "Last Dance" name of the run. It had nothing to do with being the last JABO run or even the last JABO run for the year. I named the run. My brother was a career Army man. I asked him what would be an appropriate name for a run that would honor the men of US Army Special Forces. He told me about a party for a deceased member of US Army Special Forces thrown by his family. The family celebrated his life at a party called "Last Dance". Since two of our honorees, John Woolschlagger and Bull Simmons were deceased, it seemed appropriate to me. Here are a few of the marbles with dance names. Charleston Golden Charleston I think the new camera is showing the lutz better than the old Kodak. I am now using a Canon. Can you see the lutz in the Golden Charleston? Do I have the pics resized too small now?

These are marbles I've photographed before. They are the Tribute Last Dance marbles from 2009. I am working with a new camera and a new photo editing program. I'm trying it out on you. Bull this is the run that was done in honor of US Army Special Forces and this marble was named for "Bull" Simmons. Lone Wolf This marble was named for Philip Garfield Arthur The Colonel This marble was named for Col. John Woolschlagger. Hardcore This marble was named for David McCullough I think I have solved the problem of the resizing. The size of these looks better, but now I have a problem of image distortion. The marbles on each side of the pic seem stretched out of round. Anybody know how to correct this?

Rasberry jelly would have worked. Pear jam sounds good. I used to like the spicy stuff, but old age has taken care of that.

Thank you, okiemudman. You coming to the show?

More colors.

More slags.

I don't like pickled beets.

I remember, but didn't know who were. I'm slow, so I guess you'd have had to say "I'm MC Marbles".

Mark, I guess I didn't know who you were. I think I met a couple of others from here also, but nobody said a word about the board. Wish they had cause I don't know real names that go with chat board names. I also ran into the folks who have the Indiana marble club. Weldon and I used to go to their shows, but it's been so long i didn't recognize them. (Beth told me I helped them with some ID's) Joseph sure had a good time and he wants to go to another one.

Thanks Lou. I do hope to get them small enough to see the whole marble on the screen.

No, it's just plain opaque white glass. I have 5 others like it, but wanted it because they're hard to find in yellow so I got it for a friend who is just starting out.

These did not come from the Buckeye. I bought them before I went and they arrived just in time for what would have been my 50th Wedding Anniversary. I bought myself a present. This is a Mike Gong Pittsburgh vortex. And this one is a Mike Gong silver windowpane. Thanks for looking!