Ric

What color is the glass?

Hmmm, flaming eagle is new to me too. Which marble are you talking about? I'll guess the green based one on the left?

Where is that reflection in the marbles coming from? It look pretty cool.

The bag and mibs are new to me - nice wee ones, though.

Rick! Nice to have you back here! I'll be interested in the WV swirls, of course.

This is the first one I've seen - kinda cool. The design looks like it's been applied to the marble, but I have no idea, who, what, where or when.

The ones on the left in the first pic do look like "gems" - they are usually relatively uniform in size and shape. The others look pretty random - much more like "production fails", IMO.

I think those are going to be pretty cool, Joep - colored "purees" might look even better. 👍

NIce Vitro Tri-Lites - Aquamarines on the right, I think.

Nice displays! Is it wrong that this is what really caught my eye? Those are some nice fish too!

I have no clue what kind of stone, but I would be interested to know too.

I think they're both Vitro Tri-lites. But I might be able to see Akro on the second one.

This is very sad. David was a gentle soul. He had a real flair for life, in general, and writing about marbles, in particular. Whenever I received something from him in the mail it was always a treat. He took a lot of care and time with packaging and presentation, always unique, and always included a hand-written letter. He was one of a kind, and he will be missed.

These are not Vitro, much more likely Asian.

That's a good looking group, Bill - the light blue on that middle one is nice. I always like to have examples of different sizes - the marbles always seem to look better when you mix different sizes together.

I do not think these are mica. I am not certain, but they look mostly like Master marbles to me. They made some that are loaded with white flakes. In fact, some folks refer to them as "snow globes". I don't think I have seen others with this pale blue color though.

$20 seems steep to me. They appear to be a variety of pretty typical stones and dyed clay marbles (and maybe steel ball bearing or two), and the glass marbles appear to be worthless, regardless of what they actually are. I would not buy them.

This is what I have learned, with the help of one of my students: The four characters are "ten-thousand", "mile", "the Great", and "Wall". Together, they make the phrase "The ten-thousand-mile Great Wall", which is the full name of this World Wonder. The red is a signature, and the character appears to be the old Chinese character for "cloud". .

First, I am pretty sure this is Chinese and not Japanese, and it could well be a souvenir from the Great Wall - it is very cool!

I think they are Sunsets.

There are no Vitros here. The first is Peltier. The value on these is little to none, depending on condition, and from what I can see, I doubt a collector would purchase any of them.

If there is only one of those "seams" - I'd call it a creased pontil, and a transitional.

That jar is great - they look really nice in a big group!

Cool mibs, but a little out-of-round.

That is a cool piece of glass, Joep. Who made it?