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Skyler,

Only an hour south to Lexington to get your marble fix. Bill

Bob,

I just reserved a table, used the paypal feature. This is one of my favorite shows. See you there.

Bill

Planning to be there Thursday but may roll in Wed. if I can. Bill

Well, I don't meet Bernies requirements as a sulfide collector but I do have more than a few German handmades:-). Oh, and I have actually seen these two sulfides in person. Congrats to Bernie on an incredible find. When I first saw them not a question in my mind that they were vintage and my second thought was why didn't I bid on them when I had a chance. What I can't add is any insight about the metal work. Bill

Bob,

Sure hope your dad is doing better. Always a pleasure to talk with him. Look forward to it every show. Got a surprise at this show, I can sell marbles. I couldn't get out of my room to really hunt for the traffic coming in and buying and it continued at the show. Congrats to Chad and company for a well run show. Thanx to all who bought from me. Only complaint was cold bacon at the restaurant for breakfast:-) Bill

When I was 6 my mom made a marble bag for me out of moose hide. My dad had been stationed in Alaska in the fifties and many things were made from that moose he shot. I still have the bag somewhere maybe if I can find it I'll post a pic.

Bill

Another oddball pelt, white base with yellow and green with aventurine.

Hansel, Yes the largest of them is 1-1/2". Years ago I found two nice horizontals that were 3/4", With my love of big marbles I sold them and that was a mistake as I have found many more in the 1-1/2 range and almost never see the horizontals in the smaller sizes. That still seems odd to me as most marbles are much more difficult to find in larger sizes, and you see plenty of the small plain "navares". Maybe somebody has a hoard of the small horizontals and wants to trade up to bigger ones.:-)

Bill

Back to the subject of reverse twist. I just went through all my big marbles. From 50+ big swirls I found no reverse twists. From over a 100 big onions I found five that twisted backwards. Four of those were multi-layer (submarine?) of which I have eight so half of those were reverse twist. The other reverse twist was a four lobe with just a slight twist. I have no idea what this means in the big picture but a nice sampling to look at. Bill

Greg,

Why don't you just bring them over to Lexington. Maybe I can help you get out of trouble.

Bill

Some of my favorites, melted pontil hortizontal slags. Back when things were simple we called them transitions :-) Kind of my hope for the weather transition into spring.

Bill

Great solitaire bowl. Should be filled with clambroth.

Bill

Here is an odd one, 1-1/2" game marble? made with mocha/agateware base. Came out of England years ago in a group of other plain large non glass marbles. Included was an evaluation/identification service dated 1982 from "CITY MUSUM AND GALLERY STOKE-ON-TRENT. stoneware childrens marbles with handpainted decoration probably staffardshire late 19th century. Thoughts?

Bill

One more try 1-3/8 up to 1-7/8+

Theres nothing that makes me feel older and more inept than trying to post pics when I haven't done one for a while. a nice group of Mfc slags but I guess you will have to trust me on that.

I won't make Canton but I'm always looking for big Mf slags. At the top of my wish list is a 1-1/2 or bigger purple and then a 1-3/4 or bigger blue. that's not to say I would turn down big green or amber. Post them if you got em or PM me. Bill

Hi Bob,

If it has a nice faceted pontil in all likelyhood it is German and what we used to refer to as Leighton transitionals and thought they were american. There has been some use of the name Greiner to describe these referring to an early German glass house that they are thought to come from. If in good condition it is a very desirable marble.Bill

Chad, Very nice marble, I think I had one of those once upon a time.:-) Went to the Indy show today, found one marble 3/4" pelt bumblebee with aventurine in nice shape!! Maybe doesn't take muich to make a show for me anymore but that did it for me. Now back to searching for the easy ones to find like the green rebel. Bill

Ron,

The marble you just asked about that sheilalinn listed is not the same one. I previously purchased it and returned it last week. It is polished with no pontils. Bill

Boy did this topic kind of drift away from marbles from morphy's. I went to the auction and got 10 lots. I went from there to visit family and had them delay shipping until I got home. My best buy was #261 an almost 2-3/8 3 lobed onion that was much better in hand than pics $225 :-) 1-15/32 ribbon lutz I think they graded 8.8 but it had no missing glass and some light pocket wear for $375. I got 2 christensen blue laces for 175 one described as having fx in the blue but I have yet to find it. My favorite is lot 16 described as a shrunken core onion with outer panels. Simply put it was a clear base glass submarine with rare colors and mica on the inner core, but the best thing about this one is I have same cane brother to it and I thought from the pics it might have been but in hand was no doubt. I picked up a few unusual 7/8" onions which is one of my favorite sizes to collect. I think one or two may have been mine once before. Did pick up a couple other lots that were interesting but I probably could live without maybe attribute to auction fever:-). My impressions of the auction; I had very few problems with the grading. The big indian was unbelievable in hand but way out of my pocket book. Lot 15, and 135 were examples of marbles that to my eye were exactly as described but just didn't do as much for me in hand which is totally subjective on my part. If I had been at this auction 10 years ago I would have bought all the big lobed core onions. They all had a little too much damage for my taste today but sold quite reasonably. The length of the auction was a big improvement over the 700+ lot auctions they have had. Happy New Year to all Bill

I went and got a few. Really helps to have them in hand. Some of the high end ones looked much better in the catalog than in hand and I didn't disagree with the grading just some marbles are really photogenic:-) Bill

Clyde, I started with firefox no luck so tried IE no luck either.

Bob,

Of course there were bargains. I hate icollect never have had any luck using them for anything and last night was no exception. No problem with logging in just couldn't get in the auction just kept kicking to check java over and over. Never have problems with any other live online auctions just icollect. glad somebody got bargains bummed it wasn't me.

Bill

Ron I agree that it doesn't look right but green base glass will alter the colors from what we would expect on an old german onionskin. The kind of marble i hate i.d.ing from pics. Bill

Yes the "oxblood" typically is subsurface on these. Usually not as wide a band as yours which is a plus for yours. We call it oxblood but in the blue casing glass it may not be truly oxblood but a red that appears darker in the blue glass. I'm not saying that the color isn't oxblood but blue glass over other colors changes what we perceive the color to be. Still great example of a hard to find marble.

Bill