Ric

It's been a while since I've been in the neighborhood and I'm old enough to remember when Nick Fink's was a dive. lol I still get up to Rockford regularly to visit family though.

Yes, that's a Rainbo.

It doesn't impress me as handmade marble. It looks more like a weird "cold roll" defect on a machine made marble. Comstock Park, huh. I've been in Nick Fink's more than a few times - born and raised in NE GR.

If there is a little indented line you can feel with your fingernail where I circled I am changing my ID to Master. 🙂

Looks like an Akro moss agate to me.

I'm leaning toward Akro. If that is AV it should glitter in sunlight - roll it around a bit and see if it sparkles.

Akro, IMO.

It looks hand gathered to me but being white on clear makes it hard to see detail. It doesn't impress me as MFC, the pattern looks more Navarre to me but I really can't tell. Can you get a nice strait-on close-up of this area? Does it look like there is a pontil or seam there?

Cleaning it wouldn't hurt, although it might not help too much. Like Fire said, it looks to be mostly pocket-wear - just mild surface abrasions. The thing is quite old after all. Who knows what it's been through? Start off by just giving it a bath with room temp water and some dish soap. A soft brush would be okay but be careful around any damage and don't use a wire brush or anything too harsh or abrasive. You never know, it might help a little.

All I am going to say is, WOW - that is a sweet marble! Kind of a shrunken core end of cane onion skin lutz - it's nutz!

That's an Alley from the St. Mary's location.

Bottom line . . . that is a dandy marble - I'd even say special. Nice find!

Nice marble. I think it would be called a two color ribbon lutz swirl. Barely submerge it in water and take look (and a photo for us too). I think you'll be happy you did. 🙂

Yeah, that UV glass is a little unusual . . .

One of my son Jake's (RIP) favorite JABO Classics (13/16") It was a gift from Ron Shepherd (RIP).

2003 JABO Classic "Superman" (3/4") . . . a little weak on the blue.

2001 JABO Classic "Rebel" (3/4")

Yeah, those are just small generic display boxes, not original packaging.

Just some clay foils 5/8" - 15/16" . . . Some of Hopf's "Brilliant Marbles", perhaps.

Wow, that is one oogly mib - very cool. My guess is QC fell asleep and you got lucky!

I think the first is Pelt and the last two are Akro. The second one is a little odd - I have no good thoughts at the moment. A couple of different views might help.

The first two might be Pelt. The third is not really a patch - looks JABO to me. Hard to tell on the last one, might be another JABO.

The first and last might be JABO (I wonder about the 3rd one too) - no Vitros, IMO.

Vitro would be my last guess - I think it's Pelt. I've posted a couple like it before.

You sure you don't want to start with Vitro or Akro? 🙂