Ric
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I see the cut line now. Thanks for straightening me out!
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Shocker! Thanks, Ron.
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It makes me wonder how many mad Mothers or Fathers tossed a whole bag in the wood stove.
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I thought the same thing at first but I don't think I've ever seen a similar foreign marble that's this size - have you?
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If I remember right, I won it in 2011 at the auction which used to be held during the WVMCC Show to benefit the Club - I think Dave McCullough may have donated it to the auction. @wvrons might be able to correct me if I am wrong - his memory seems to be working better than mine lately. 😄
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Those are cool too. I would not have thought a structural fire would get hot enough to melt and fuse them like that.
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These appear to be foreign Cat's Eye type marbles. I believe the other is an American made Master Sunburst.
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That is unusual - really cool. Of course, there are some limestone deposits that are chock-full of fossils. It's almost surprising marbles like this aren't more common. But this is the first one I have seen. It kinda makes all the other limestone marbles seem lame - the best I have are dyed - big whoop! lol
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Hmmm, it's an oddball, pretty though - crazy looking Master is all I can come up with, almost looks like it's been polished.
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Welcome to the Marble Connection, Kimber! Oh come on Steph, Vitros are disgusting. Nobody should collect those . . . . but me! 😁
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I think Akro, maybe Master, on the left.
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Yes, from an investor's run.
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Unique . . . @Jeff54 got me looking - I know I have one like the "green eye" he posted here earlier. But at the moment, only the marble gods know where that one is.
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Nice marbles and nice post, Jeff. I think that the "5 color rule" may have developed back when people were still trying to figure out the differences between Akro Sparklers and Master Sunbursts. Five or more colors are very common with Sparklers and very rare with Sunbursts - just a thought.
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It's easy to see how they got their name.
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Here is an old pic I had saved. It was from a fellow named Roger who used to frequent here. He had a nice website that explained pontils, transitionals and other marble arcana. I hadn't looked at this in many years and, as usual, it seems Ron may be on to something.
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Very nice, Art - that is a marble!
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Kinda cool looking. I'm not sure I have seen this particular critter but I have seen similar ones - another one of the many uses for "gems".
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Nice Al! I have never seen that one, it's obviously older than the one I showed, and it took a lot more work to make the box too. I wonder if Craig S. had a hand in it.
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No, not Akro, and they were more common in Canada than here, AFAIK. Which is not to say they were made in Canada but I don't know about that.
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I didn't know mushrooms could have transparent patches and I am not really seeing the "mushroom" structure at either seam where the ribbon meets the patch but . . . ? I thought about CAC on the third one too but, like Art, moved on because that long tail (particularly the end of it) seems odd for CAC, at least to me.
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I'm going to be doing some work to look into this further. AFAIK Alley Ghosts are just common St. Mary's marbles washed out with clear, and when I begin to see more of them than I do the non-washed out ones I get suspicious - maybe it's just me, I haven't seen that many transparent Alleys from St. Mary's, at least ones that are similar to these.
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The JABO marbles I am thinking of do not have a name that I know of but I do know which marble you're talking about - the one that looks really plain until you put some UV on it is the JABO Ghost I know.
