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Yes, this is the same guy. Name is Mike Reliford. Here is an example of Scott's work. No, its not mine and is still in another's hands.

Of course it makes everything bigger. But only in your mind's eye. After it wears off though you realize you are just like everybody else. Although I think some people have an endless stash as they always think and feel their's are bigger. Scott correct pronunciation is T-uh-LL-ER. Dont sweat it you're already forgiven.

Thank you David for that kind comment. Yes, Scott you were missing the "er" all these years on my name. Definely a joke can made of that. Now what was his er name again? At least your way Scott I would have way more peole getting pronunciation right. Maybe in another 20-30 years I may actually deserve to be nominated. Or maybe not. If someone gets caught taking marble enhancing drugs does that keep them from being elected?

Definetly a tongue in cheek thread Greg started. Trying to get a few laughs from a thread that was not. I find it amazing that people didnt catch on to this fact. Maybe I'm just partial as my name is on the list. LMAO.

Very hard to pick one. For my CAC's I would say my 7/8 six color flame and the purple sub. For Pelt's I have to go for the 7/8" greycoat, 7/8" flaming dragon w/ aventurine, a clear zebra, A green lantern, and a green/black (green hornet). I am still looking for the hornet. Even though the last isnt a handmade its still related. A birdcage paperweight that says China on bottom.

Nice book. Is yours a later version. Mine is signed but the pics arent in color. These goes very high, anywhere 200-400.

I love that 3rd pic. Bill, I had a little help in someone advising me during that auction. Yahoo chat was great during that time cause you can talk while during auction to your mib buds everywhere. He told me to get that one as it would be probably be one of the rarest mib I'd see. Too bad I was bidding against your buddy Peter. I'd gotten it a LOT cheaper. The clearie that Scott got is underrated IMO. When I first got into mibs 11 yrs ago one of my first purchases was a collection that had a little of everything in it. There was 6 or 7 of those clearies all diff colors. I have maybe 3 left. Most had the ghost cores. A couple had a little bit of white swirl.

I have 5 of these type. Sadly this the only pic I have of any of them right now. Like Bill T. I have a peewee that I got yrs ago fom Block. It's green base and yellow swirls. Of these Greiner type known, one of the most HTF is the solid brick type, NO CLEAR. The solids are usually the ugliest type of brick you will see. Most have pops on them. With out clear maybe the glass didnt mix well. The one in the pic is from the ship salvage that was handled by Del Morgan yrs ago. This is the only one of the Greiner's they left in natural Sea state and not break it out. All the others they broke them out. All the polish jobs were done by Larry Castle I believe.

Thanks Dani, when I get it, it's going to look very nice in MY box.

An Christmas tree with heavy aventurine. Glad people were sleepning.

Some people have even put pontils on fakes after buying from artist. A well known case comes to mind a few years ago with some of Fred Wilganowski's work. A person was using etching cream to create pontils and passing as old. Here is a great marble that a person was just messing around. This marble somehow got into a digger's hands and then passed off as a dug marble. The buyer paid good money. He was an experienced collector that was fooled until he met the maker at a show and was told he made the marble. The maker did try to buy it back but the collector refuses to sell. Who wouldn't pay good money for a dream marble such as this?

The repro comic boxes are at least stamped the number of that with the number of the box. If someone buys those not knowing that they were not repro they need to study more. On the medals, I believe most if not all original medals were not made in silver. The silver repro medals have the "sterling" mark on them. This at least helps seperate the them from the old. The Lauscha sulphides are pure deceiving. No mark to identify fake. What's the artist going to do? Not sell them? Destroy them? Of course they're going to get sold with the proviso "I dont know much about marbles."

This thread should also not get confused with the most recent sulphide debacle. Craig Snider last year warned of sulphides being sold from Germany through ebay that Hansel had commissioned years ago but let the deal drop and the artist getting stuck with all the marbles.

They look like easter eggs.

You are talking about 2 different Jeff Hales. I can guarantee that the Jeff that Griff sees isnt the same Jeff that has the Yahoo group. The Jeff for the Yahoo group and the one referred to lives in Joplin MO and very rarely travels.

I would have to disagree. Posting an active link to an auction that are fraud or known fakes helps us that may not know and helps bidders not get burned. I would make one amendment to that if you post the link you must have informed the seller and post their response. The seller that got burned by Pavcraz didnt know. They put in the auction later that it was fake. This makes them upstanding in my book and they did the right thing. If that auction hadnt been posted the fake may have been passed on to bidder.

The yahoo group is active and he checks on it from time to time. He doesnt do much with marbles anymore. His time is taken up by stock market.

Block didnt name the marble. It was already in use when Block took the pics. Collectors named this because of the patttern like a guinea. It is really a striped opaque in general but a variety. Sort of like a hybrid of some other type of marble and company. You ever see a pelt liberty/rebel, an MK spidermelon? This is what I am referring to a variety.

There is such animal. They are named striped opaque guineas because the patterns on them resemble the patterns on a guinea. Yours is borderline. In the first pic you see the splotches resemble a guinea in pattern. The rest is more of a reg striped opaque. Hence the reason I say borderline. The only 2 colors I have seen them in is this red/blue and red/green. Way VHTF. Block's book has a couple examples of them.

First one, no its not a panther, looks like reg zebra. Second pic very much possible on the panda.

No to Canton. Yes to Amana. Increase in value cant say. Next to that bee it looks legit but this is one marble that is hard to tell sometimes even in hand.

Showing that other makes me lean more towards vacor. Have others look at it at next show. Keep it if is vacor as good examples to tell difference.

I believe a peerless does have 2 seems but they are hard to see as they are generally in the solid base color. How many ribbons does yours have?

Yours looks like a pelt bruiser. Which is a peerless but the black is green in bright light. Panthers are the baby blue base w/ black ribbons, little to no avent. Pandas are dark blue cobalt base w/ white ribbons. Pandas are also way more prevelent than panthers. Be careful on the panthers as vacor made a similar one.

Area probably Lausha. Maker I have my suspisions that all these types were by Rolf Greiner. He, I would call the father of modern marbles. He started making marbles as manufacture. He also knew enough and experimented enough to make all his colors. The oxbloods, egg yolk yellow and a few other colors during this time period. Some colors esp oxblood wasnt used again until 50 yrs later when MFC started their manufacture. Most have the faceted pontil. His descendants are still making marbles.