Ric

Here's one of my favorites - it's Buddy's now.

Interesting . . . some headers recently sold. Same seller, even more recently. Maybe they had a gross.

Happy Birthday Ron - have a great one!

Congratulations to you and yours, BJ. Baby's a cutie and so is big sis.

Very nice. Great oxblood pattern.

Cool Steve, I'm liking that second marble in the 4th row. And is that a red Pelt slag I see in the 5th?

Nice pick-ups Al. Of course, I really like the swirl, and the colors on that Opal are awesome!

Thanks for the input. I'm thinking they are HTF.

Nice Steve, those shooters are cool!

That really is an impressive fix. I didn't even know such a repair was possible - outstanding work I'd say.

How common are Vitro Superiors with "oxblood"? I hadn't seen one before I came across this one the other day. It's Superior on one pole with a good bit of Vitro's "Ox" on the other. Sorry about the poor pics.

I agree, Steph. It looks like Marblemama's uploaded some interesting ones.

Here you go Miser. I didn't intend to ignore your questions. The marble is about 7/8" at the largest and out of round by about 3/32". There are lots of bubbles in a kinda cloudy green glass. I have seen some of the marbles intended for fiberglass production. This doesn't look like the ones of those that I've seen. After looking at the "pontil variations" page at the Akron marbles site, I thought it might be a hand made puree with a strange melted pontil or something, but I'm pretty much over that. lol. Here are a couple of other pics. And Dan, thanks to you for the pics too.

Thanks all. Like I said, I know very little about hand made marbles. I've seen a lot of wrinkles, creases and cold spins on machine mades that sorta look like a pontil but this one seemed unusual.

about pontils or hand mades. Is this one? A mist maybe?

I think Steph's got it. Those big fluorescent pink marbles were made by Jabo in the mid 1990s. -Ric

Original post updated 3/9/2010

The original post has been updated.

Here's some common types with a few atypical ones thrown in just for fun.

And for that, I'll yodel - OpalllllllLadyhooo! O.K., that was lame. Thanks for the picture, Bruce.

Hey Delbert, The construction of the marble you showed looks considerably different than the construction of the marble in the original post, doesn't it? It's also difficult to discern the colors from the pictures, so . . . ?

I apparently heard the same things you did, Steph. I always thought multiple colors were required too. But I also have a few with an opal base and a single color so . . . ?

Hey Gary, I'm glad you enjoyed the post. You are correct that not all pinkish mibs are Jabos. On the other hand, they sure made a lot of them with that pinkish base. And if I am not mistaken, they also made some transparent ones with pink swirling inside too.

That would be a nice find, Delbert. Could you show us a picture of it?

No kidding . . . there's some nice patterns in that group. -Ric